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MacUser 

VOL. 1, NO. 7 APRIL 1986 

Cover photo by Alex Qitcsada 


POWER COMPUTING 

THE SOFTWARE STRIP New technology 
that can lower software costs, by Steven 

Bobber ............ 38 

A RELATIONAL BARGAIN Interlace offers 
both relational database power and low 

cost, by Michael D. Wesley ..46 

ARE 2 HEADS BETTER THAN ONE? Can 
Consultant improve your work? Use it to 
find out. by Joost Rome it ...54 



Vatic 54 


EDUCATION 

THE STAR-STRUCK MAC A guide to four 
sky-watching programs, fry Robb Alev 
Allan .78 



Page 68 


MAC OFFICE 

JAPANESE TO GO A unique word pro¬ 
cessor lets Japan in on the Mac’s power. 

by Howard Katz ....60 

BREAD AND BUTTER BUDGETING Orga¬ 
nize your finances with The Home Ac¬ 
countant t by Bonnie Walker .74 


DESKTOP PUBLISHING 

ON YOUR MACS RcadySetGo 2.0 makes 
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ENTERTAINMENT 

THE CHEAT SHEET Ways to win that von 
never thought otl Trade Forman 

Hines ..........86 

DESIGNER BATTLES Create and tight 
your own Ancient An of War scenarios. 
by Neil L Shapiro _....._..._..94 




THE EDITOR'S DESKTOP Comet 

LaserWriter, by Neil L. Shapiro ..*..9 

WEST COAST REPORT Ghost of a 

Chance, by Michael D, Wesley ....25 

THE MACINTOSH BOUNDARY The Fam¬ 
ous Computer Columnists’ School fa 

Doug Clapp ............. 28 

THE HELP FOLDER Answers from the 
Mac Team, by Dan Cochran .116 


Pane 38 


ONE IF BY LAND. TWO IF BY "C” Add 
music to your programs, by Bob Perez 104 


THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE The Amazing 
New Macintosh! by ]olm C. Dvorak 144 


DEPARTMENTS 

LETTERS Readers have their say. from the 

Mac Community ....... 15 

NEW ON THE MENU New products, copy 
protection, rumors and updates....... 18 

QUICK CLICKS Ten reviews of exciting 

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Finding nut whits on your Mac disk can sometimes be a labor of unrequited lave. With 
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SUSAN COHEN 


THE EDITOR'S DESKTOP 


COMET 

LASERWRITER 

by Neil L. Shapiro 

I was tying in bed drinking Rumple 
Mmtz peppermint schnapps and 
watching MTV Is New Yea ris Eve Party 
{magazine editors really know how to 
have a gtxid time). The announcer said 
something similar to, “Goodbye to 
198$—the year of Halley's Comet, 
which you need a big, fat telescope to see 
and even then it doesn't look like much. 11 

Well, I had to disagree. [ had just 
come in from a cold night 5 * observing of 
Halley's through my own big, fat tele¬ 
scope (a Celestron Super C8 Plus bought 
in a weak moment) and 1 had spent well 
over an hour simply staring at Halley’s. 
Sure it was tiny, blurry and hardly as 
spectacular as the fireworks in New 
York's seaport festivities or in the DiVin¬ 
yls' rendition of “Pleasure and Pain." But 
it sure was awe-inspiring to anyone that 
could understand what was happening. 
That train of thought, naturally 
enough, led me to think about Apple’s 
LaserWriter. In some ways the Laser¬ 
Writer was the Halley’s Comet of com¬ 
puting in 1985. A lot of fanfare followed 
by product introduction, and the prod¬ 
uct seemed somehow fuzzy, unfocused 
and perhaps overshadowed by other 
events. Bur stiff there was the glow of 
history about it. 

GUTENBERG, FRANKLIN, JOBS? 

Pm a believer in the theory that com¬ 
munications shapes history; chat many of 
a society's most all-encompassing fea¬ 
tures arc directly influenced, developed 
from and changed by that society's abili¬ 
ties to have its people be in touch with 
one another. It’s a theory that's hard to 
disagree with. 

When Gutenberg brought movable 
type to European societies he started a 
w hole new form of publishing. Books no 
longer were the realm of an extremely 
privileged few. Rather, they became 
more w idely available even if still to an 
aristocracy of nobility and dergy. But it 
wasn't long before publishers such as 
Caxton realized that they could publish 
in a vernacular language and reach a 
potentially huge audience with works 
such as Malory\s Alorte D Arthur* (Cax- 
ton was, unfortunately, also the world’s 
first blue-penciling editor as any compar¬ 
ison of Caxtun's Malmy with the original 


manuscript discovered by Prof Vmaver 
will reveal.) 

Gradually the audience for such works 
grew and grew- as more and more people 
learned to read. The process of books 
being available led to more people warn¬ 
ing to pick up on reading and, as more 
people learned to read, there were more 
books published. Such a process would 
someday (particularly in parts of a latter- 
day Cambridge) be referred to as posi¬ 
tive feedback. 

Finally, so many people had stumbled 
into learning bow to read that Benjamin 
Franklin and others were, in the 1700's, 
able to begin toppling a huge, world¬ 
wide empire by disseminating their own 



views and political arguments through 
die media of the “broadside.” These 
broadsides were pamphlets printed on 
private presses expressing eve nailing 
from homilies to outright sedition 
against the King. This first example of a 
free press established the fact that the 
pen may or may not be mightier than the 
sword, but used properly it can cause any 
number of swords to be unsheathed. 

Since Franklin's rime the free press has 
progressed in the Western world to truly 
astounding proportion and power. In¬ 
deed, it is sometimes hard to tell the 
difference between some huge, national 
newspapers and the political conglomer¬ 
ates they report on. 

Streaking into this already star-stud¬ 
ded firmanem has come die LaserWriter. 
Well, at least inching and edging its way. 

THE NEW RENAISSANCE 

How many people you know can 
read? How- many people you know can 
compute? Most importantly, how many 
readers do you know could compute if 
given access to a Macintosh? 

We are seeing something happen here 
which can only be compared to the 


manner in which reading gave rise ro the 
wealth of new ideas, techniques and 
sciences that wc refer to as the Renais¬ 
sance. Just as more and more people who 
were not clergy or high nobility learned 
to read then, today's new literati are the 
people who are learning to compute 
without having to be computer scien¬ 
tists. 

Up until now we have only seen what 
computers can do if applied to a task by a 
member of the computing aristocracy. 

With the advent of the Macintosh we 
had die first computer capable of being 
used by the butcher, the baker, the 
bookie and the outside agitator. With 
the advent of the LaserWriter wc arc 
about to see how such people will be 
able to put their own thoughts, feelings, 
ideas and broadsides into print. 

Sure, the realm of desktop publishing 
is now a corporate one. Programs like 
PnjjcMaktr and RtadySetGa are being 
sold to the people who can now afford 
the LaserWriter necessary to really make 
these programs sing. 

Even as we read these words, some¬ 
where a gigantic, boring 200-page, Mac- 
produced report on widgets and sales 
curves is being plunked onto an oak desk 
by a happy corporate gnome who has 
managed to disguise a lack of creativity 
with fancy graphics and enhanced type 
styles. But the advent of the LaserWriter, 
in the long run, will mean much more 
than that. 

Because sooner or later a laser printer 
like the LaserWriter will not cost as 
much as a small car. 

What w ill happen when you can buy a 
laser printer for less than four hundred 
dollars? I think it will revolutionize many 
aspects of the world we live in. Perhaps 
even literally, 

PTA’S AND GUERILLAS 

I've already had a few mailings from a 
local PTA published via Mac by using 
laser-produced output cm a cheap facsim¬ 
ile-type machine. The results were pretty 
good. From a printing standpoint, it was 
at least as eye-catching as "Poor Rich¬ 
ard s Almanac," Of course, content-wise, 
it was prem awful. 

But there was a fellow who, with 
almost no budget on a borrowed laser 
printer, was able ro produce a very' 
professional looking journal. It was a 
harbinger of things to conic. 

I don't really know what political 
group will br the first to catch onto the 
possibilities of recreating the broadside. 
But the technology' is there, it's just the 
price point that is still off. Let’s sec what 
might happen when prices go down. 

Make yourself a RtadySctGo docu- 


APRIL 1986 MACUSER9 






THE EDITOR’S DESKTOP 



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WHAT’S IN THE COST? 

J ohn Dvorak (MacUser, January) asserts 
that much of the LaserWriter's initial 
price was based on the cost of memory. 
Since it isn’t stated as to how this 
conclusion is drawn, I assume that he is 
comparing the price of the LaserWriter 
with another laser printer that uses the 
Canon engine hut has less memory— 
notably, the HP LaserJet. 

If this is the method used, Mr. Dvorak 
ignores an important variable. Ordinary 
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graphics language. Since Apple Comp lit¬ 
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Joel S. Peskoff 
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HARROWING THE CHOICES 

Vc had a Macintosh for about 18 
months, and have had great fun learn¬ 
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ware applications. But until this fall, I 
really didn’t need a spreadsheet, which 
gave me considerable time to evaluate 
what the market has to offer. 

After reviewing every available spread¬ 
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Crunch or Excel. Looking at Jazz, I 
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better left for musicians. 

In evaluating Crunch or Excel, I was 
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neat features, blit Excel offers macros. 
And the bottom line is productivity. 
Macros make spreadsheet work more 
proficient, so I rationalized on buying 
Excel. 

Gregory M. At at her 
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CREATIVELY MAC 

am a graphic designer and illustrator in 

the Twin Cities, Minnesota, who has 
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creative and business tool Although I 
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although they need to refine the resolu¬ 
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Tim Nybcrg 
Roseville, AIN 


GAMING 10, SPREADSHEETS 0 

uch a relief to see a magazine that 
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BACK TO BASICS 

■enjoyed reading the “Great Language 
I Face-off" (January'). However, there is 
an error in the table comparing the 
features of the various languages. Al¬ 
though rhe table indicates that AIS BA¬ 
SIC is not capable of calling assembly 
language programs, MS BASIC contains 
a very flexible and easy-to-use method of 
doing this. Libraries of assembly lan¬ 
guage programs actually extend the lan¬ 
guage since statements in libraries can be 
used just like other BASIC statements. I 
consider this feature of AIS BASIC to he 
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Suitable language for the development of 
serious programs. Already Clear Lake 
Research (with which I am associated), 
GW Instruments, First Byte, and Roein- 
anre sell libraries for BASIC. No doubt 
the number of libraries of BASIC will 
continue to increase. 

David M* Lane 
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You'll probably agree with Sharon Zar - 
detto AkeCs review of the CLR Libraries in 
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W e starred writing our programs some 
time ago using Microsoft: BASIC. We 
soon became frustrated with BASIC be¬ 
cause of its general slowness, especially 
with larger programs. We started to 
change over to the C language in order 
to speed the execution of our programs 
even though wc prefer to write in BA¬ 
SIC, as it allows us to better concentrate 
on the “logic” of our programs and not 
so much on the “language.” 

I can now report that we have gone 
back to BASIC because of the CLR 
Libraries. These library' routines greatly 
enhance the operation of Alicrnsoft BA¬ 
SIC for the Macintosh. For example, we 
no longer use BASICS “PRINT" func¬ 
tion but rather the CLR Library function 
“DrawText" and “TextBox.” These pro¬ 
vide a tremendous "speed" improvement 
over the BASIC “PRINT 1 function. 
Dick Rylmder, Sr. 

Citrus Heights , CA 

DVORAK SPREADING TOO THIN 

S o far your magazine has proven to be 
quite use fill Keep sight of what makes 
you different from MacWorld: You seem 
to understand where the hungry Macster 
wants to go; your competition routinely 
prints articles about where five already 
been. All MacUsar needs is a writer with 
a keen sense of humor. Irreverence si, 
bullying no. Dvorak, I fear, is over¬ 
worked these days, blabbering more 
from nervous energy than profound 
thought. Neither the computer industry 
nor the rest of die world needs another 
Don Rickies. 

David Swift 
Jackson, WT 


BUGS APLENTY 

G eneral Computer released its 20-Meg 
disk with a print spooler feature. After 
checking with the company to verify 
compatibility', I obtained a free copy 
from my dealer and installed ir + But, the 
more it was used, rhe more bugs began 
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decay continued until drawers locked up, 
applications were damaged beyond re¬ 
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until I noticed the frequency of Tracks 
File access error messages proceeding 
crashes that it was left out, and the 
improvement was immediate. It appears 
that McicTracks can also wreak havoc 
with a HyperDrivc system, and it should 
be approached with great caution. Sug¬ 
gestion; experiment carefully with Mac- 
Tracks , and use it on backup copies only, 
never a main disk. And only on a hard 
disk if you just love to tear them down 
and build them back up. Time after time 
after rime. 

Bob Hunt 
Santa Ana , CA 

WATCH OUT 

S oon after I bought my external drive, 1 
accidental started to insert my disk 
upside down into the external disk drive. 
I got the disk about a quarter of the way 
in before f realized my mistake, and 
started to pull it out. I could not do it. 
Eject in the File menu, COMMAND-E, 
pins in the hole, etc, all failed. 

My Apple dealer had to open the drive 
up to remove the disk. The disk drive has 
a mechanical probe near the front left 
which chocks to sec if the disk is in the 
locked or unlocked state. The hole in the 
disk for this is 3/16rhs of an inch from 
the left side of the disk, near the front. If 
you turn die disk upside down, you will 
find another hole, exactly 3/16ths of an 
inch from the left side, 1l/16ths inch 
from die rear of the disk. The probe had 
gotten caught in that hole, and would 
not let die disk out. 

James L. Bocttlcr 
Qrangtburjjj SC 

MAIL ORDER NOT CREATED EQUAL 

think many readers, mvsclf included, 
would be interested in finding a con¬ 
sume r-typo- re port rating for the mail¬ 
order businesses as well as computer 
stores that arc selling us Mac products. 
Such ratings would judge not only price, 
but whether or not these businesses had 
inventories as large as they advertised, 
good technical service and good respon¬ 
siveness to customer complaints. 

There are many consumer magazines 
that offer such services today in special¬ 
ized areas of automobile and home repair 
businesses. Look at die daily newspaper 
columns that rate the restaurants. A 
bimonthly survey of mail order business¬ 
es offering ty pical products, that identi¬ 
fied hidden and extra charges, that sur¬ 
veyed technical expertise and that 
measured time to delivery would assist 
us, your readers, tremendously. 

Alikal A . Pedersen 
Great Falls , VA 



Richard "Lord British" Garriott— killing the real 
one's a capital crime! 


SWEET VENGEANCE 

have become an Ultima HI maniac ever 

since my friend let me play it on his 
Mac for a few day's. 1 was marveled at the 
graphics and play action, but I also met 
with disastrous fate when I came upon 
Lord British. Like all full time adventur¬ 
ers, I thought my' characters could rake 
on anything so I went for the gusto and 
decided to attack him. Unfortunately, 
after about two hundred hits with niv 
+4 bow, I found that he was invincible. 

It came to my mind that there should 
be a solution to everything, so I played 
to regain my pride and avenge myself on 
die invincible Lord British. 

First, your party must be on horses 
and must have several keys to unlock 
doors. Enter the castle and open* the 
doors located on the left hand side of the 
castle. Arrack one of Lord British's 
guards so that Lord British will rrv to 
attack you. Lead him outside, making 
sure that he does not reach you, and then 
once he is outside, go to the ship and 
board ft as fast as you can. Take the ship 
toward Lord British and fire at him 
without going near the surface. It will 
take a mere five shots to destroy him. 
Then you have the castle all to yourself 
with every' priest, guard, jester and what¬ 
ever lives in the prison under your con¬ 
trol 

Happy destruction and demolition 
and don’t let a mere king stop you! 
H.T. Cheon/f 
Springfield^ VA 


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HELPING HAND FOR ADVENTURERS 


Malcolm Thain*s limited 
edition MaeDraw documents 
(usually printed with a Ro¬ 
land plotter) turned a section 
of the Australian exhibit at 
the Sail Francisco MaeWorld 
Expo into an impromptu gal¬ 
lery. Mac enthusiasts gath¬ 
ered to admire and purchase 
Thain’s works like the one 
above. After running off lim¬ 
ited editions of his works, 
Thai n destroys the MncDrmv 
file—TFH 


Having trouble getting 
past a particular spot in your 
adventure game? Maybe 
'The Book of Adventure 
Games II" can help. It's a 
compendium of descrip¬ 
tions, maps and dues for 
over forty popular adventure 
games for the Apple II and 
Macintosh, including Gate¬ 
way, Farenheit 451 and 


Hitchhiker's Guide to the 
Gataxy. The book won't give 
you outright answers—but It 
Just might jog your imagina¬ 
tion enough to (finally!) find 
the solution. "The Book of 
Adventure Games II" retails 
for $19.95. For more Infor¬ 
mation, contact Haba Sys¬ 
tem/Arrays, Inc. at (818) 
901-8828 .—TFH 


MIGRATING YOUR LISA TO THE MAC 


Own Lisa 7/7 software and 
want to make a permanent 
switch to the Macintosh envi¬ 
ronment? If you hurry, you 
can lay hands on the Macin¬ 
tosh XL Migration Kit, which 
transfers Lisa documents to 
Mac disks* 

Conversion tools available 
arc LisaWrite to MmcWrite 


and MicroSoft Word; Lisa- 
Dmw to MaeDraw; LtsaPro- 
jeet to MacPrcject; and Lisa- 
Cak to Microsoft Excel and 
Lotus Jazz. 

The conversion only works 
if you’re using Lisa 7/7, ver¬ 
sion 3.L Customers with ver¬ 
sion 3.0 must upgrade to 3.1 
before performing this con¬ 


version (authorized Apple 
dealers do this at no charge). 

This offer only extends 
dirough May 31, 1986. The 
basic kit sells for S30 and 
includes two Lisa installation 
disks and one Macintosh con¬ 
version utility disk. Two oth- 
er kits arc available for 5450 
each: The Migration Kit-Lo¬ 


tus Package (includes basic kit 
plus Jazz) and The Migration 
Kit-Microsoft Package (in¬ 
cludes basic kit, Ward, Excel, 
File and MacTerminal). 

Contact your local Apple 
dealer, or call Apple Custom¬ 
er Relations at (408) 973- 
2222 for ordering informa¬ 
tion .—TFH 



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REALTORS TO GET REALDATA 


WOZ PUTS MONEY WHERE HEART IS 


Do you have the latest ver¬ 
sions of your programs? 
Most programs Indicate 
what version they are 
when you look In the About 
. * . choice at the top of 
the Apple menu. If your 
version Isn't the latest, 
contact the publisher 
about possible upgrades. 
Look for addresses In our 
MlnIFinder section. Here’s 
>f press time. 


BatteryPak 
Choose Printer DA 
Concert Ware+ 
Copy It Hard Disk 
Copy II Mac 
Excel 
ExperUSP 
ExperLogo 
Factfinder 
Fedlt 

Finder (NFS)* 
Finder (MFS)* 
FONTastic 
Font/DA Mover 
Front Desk 
Gato 

Hard Disk Utility 
Hayden Spelter 
Helix 

Home Accountant 
Jazz 

Just Text 


i,06g 

1.1 

1.5 
3.0 

4.5 
4.5 


3.0a 

1.0 

1.3 

1,11 

1.2C 

2.0 r5 

1,03 

1.0 

1.09 


*HFS Is Apple's new Hier¬ 
archical File System that 
comes In ROM In the 
Plus, MFS stands for Macin¬ 
tosh File system and Is the 
old, "regular” file system. 


el I and The Mortgage Quai- 
Ifler, which run In conjunc¬ 
tion with Microsoft's Excel. 
While the programs are pri¬ 
marily designed for the 
Mac r MS-DOS and selected 
CP/M versions of most Real- 
Data Inc. programs will be 
made available as well. For 
more Information, contact 
RealData, PO Box 691, 
Southport, CT 06490, (203) 
255-2732 .—TFH 


macuraw 
MacPaint 
MacProject 
MacSpell+ 
MacTerminal 
Mac Tools 
MacWrlte 
Mac Zap 
Mac Zap 
Mac Zap 
MS BASIC 
MS Chart 
MS File 
MS Fortran 
MS Word 
Multlpian 
OverVUE 
PageMaker 
QUED 
Quick & 
Utilities, 
ReadySetGc 
Red Ryder 
Smartcom II 
Statworks 
Switcher 
ThinkTani 
TlmeBase 
Turbocnarger 
VersaTerm 


1.9 

1,6 

1.0 

1,07 

2,0 

4.5 


The National Association 
of Realtors recently signed 
a 3-year marketing agree¬ 
ment with RealData, Inc., 
makers of Real Estate In¬ 
vestment Analysis r which 
will make Its entire line of 
real estate software aids 
available directly to the 
680,000 member realtors. 
Among new releases being 
offered to the group are 
Property Management , Lev- 


1.11 

2,00 


Steve Wozniak, designer of 
the venerable Apple II and 
co-founder of Apple, recently 
bought more than $5 million 
worth of Apple stock and says 
he 5 s interested in buying 


more. Tm not looking at it ; 
as an investment,” he was 
quoted as saying in 
InfoWortd, “I just fed strong¬ 
ly enough connected that I 
should own some.” — TFH 


storage by the 


PAGEMAKER UPDATE 


Aldus Corporation's Page¬ 
Maker software has gone 
through its first revision, and 
version 1.1 of the program 
offers some new features, 
as well as some bug fixes. 

PageMaker now supports 
an on-screen 11 x 17 inch 
tabloid format. Clearly, no 
current Macintosh printer 
can print sheets that large, 
so the user must print out 
two sheets and manually 
paste them together. Post¬ 
Script printers other than 
the LaserWriter (Allied Lino¬ 


type model 100 and 300, 
for example) that support 
larger page sizes will print 
directly In the larger sizes. 

Users familiar with Mac¬ 
Paint 1.5 and the Laser¬ 
Writer know that printing In 
final mode produces 
smoother Images, due to a 
new smoothing algorithm. 
PageMaker now also sup¬ 
ports this print mode for 
MacPaint graphics pasted 
Into layouts. Improved for¬ 
matting of text with tab set¬ 
tings imported from Micro¬ 


soft Word Is also included. 
There are also improve¬ 
ments In the program con¬ 
cerning the text editor, Clip¬ 
board T resource and memory 
management. 

The upgrade has been 
sent out free of charge to all 
registered PageMaker own¬ 
ers. An installer program 
upgrades owners’ original 
1,0 diskettes. For more In¬ 
formation, contact Aldus 
Corporation, 616 First Ave. r 
Seattle, WA 98104, (206) 
441-8666.— DB 


__ 

The problem with some 
disk carrying cases is that the 
disks they're supposed to pro¬ 
tect can fall out when you 
open or dose the case Mi¬ 
crostore's Disk* Book holds 
up to 32 disks securely, open¬ 
ing from the side instead of 
rhe top to prevent too much 
jostling. Two dosing binders 
(one on top, one at the side) 
keep the contents inside. The 
DtskBfitxjk is available in a 
variety of attractive colors, 
and sells for $34.95. For 
more information, contact 
Microstore, PO Box 37, St. 
Peter, MN 56082 or call 
(507) 345-7179 . — TFH 


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APRILS B m ©F THE WIONTH 



This month's winner Is 
Daniel P.B. Smith from Bos¬ 
ton, Massachusetts. He re¬ 
ports that MacDraw 1*9 has 
a maddening bug {it was in 
version 1*7 as welt). 

When text and nontext 
items are dragged together, 
either because they are 
grouped, the text and non¬ 
text components move dif¬ 
ferent distances, losing 
their relative alignment! 
This happens only if the grid 


is on, and certain custom 
ruler settings have been 
made. Specifically, if the 
denominator of the major 
division size In inches multi¬ 
plied by the number of divi¬ 
sions is not a divisor of 24, 
it happens* For 1 inch, for 
example, it will happen for 
32, 16, 10 or 5 divisions, 
but not for 24, 12, or 8 
divisions! 

A $25 check and a 1-year 
extension of his subscrip¬ 


tion (for the solution) has 
already been sent to Dan* 
Get your bug reports in and 
you may be our next lucky 
winner. Send your reports to 
Bugsy, c/o MacUser Maga¬ 
zine, 25 W. 39th St., NYC , 
NY 10018. Remember to in¬ 
clude alt the details , such 
as what Finder, what fonts 
and desk accessories were 
in the system, and exactly 
how you stumbled on your 
crittter. 





The flow of noncommer¬ 
cial and shareware software 
never seems to diminish. In 
just a few short weeks, some 


incredibly polished and useful 
stuff has appeared on the 
grapevine: 

•Billiard Parlour provides 
both billiards and regular 
pool in an electronic pool 
hall. On-screen animation, 
sound, and very precise con¬ 
trol over hitting angle, force, 
and even ball spin (known as 
“english”) makes this simula¬ 
tion one of the most enter¬ 
taining noncommercial games 
weVe seen. Six different 
games are available, and play¬ 
ers take turns shooting 
against each other. Shots can 
be undone and even replayed 
(a pool shark's dream!)* Full 
instructions and information 


are summoned through a Help 
menu. Rack’em up, Charlie! 

•CmsbSavtT will get you 
out of many system bombs. 
Normally, the Mac must be 
reset (or switched off and on 
again) when one of these 
gremlins surfaces. Install Crash- 
Sava* at the beginning of a 
work session, and when the 
bomb explodes, simply hit the 
interrupt switch and die Mae 
returns to the Finder. It doesn't 
work, but sometimes 
is better than never, 

•Con Cade is a desk accesso¬ 
ry that simulates die opera¬ 
tion of the 68000 instruction 
set. The user can type hex 
values into ethereal registers 
and preview the effects that 
an instruction will have on 
those values* This is a "must 
have" DA tor programmers. 
•Other ... is die most logi- 
desk accessorj r around. It 
lets the user temporarily in¬ 
stall desk accessories in the 
apple menu. Similar to the 
DA Prcvmv program, diis is 
essentially the same, except in 
desk accessory format. Very 


handy for trying out new 
DAs without going the Font / 
DA Mover route. 

•Camera is a desk accessory 
that docs screen and printer 
dumps. So what? It has a 
timer chat can be set to do the 
dump after a specified num¬ 
ber of seconds, and it will 
automatically blank out the 
cursor when the dump is cre¬ 
ated* For those diat always 
forget the key combination 
sequence, here’s die answer. 

These are just some of the 
goodies wcVc run across. 
How does one go about get¬ 
ting them? The first place to 
try would be one of the larger 
communications networks 
(CompuServe, Delphi). An¬ 
other good source are the 
various BBSs (Bulletin Board 
Systems) around the country'. 
A modem and some persever¬ 
ance will pay off’ Your local 
Mac Users’ Group probably 
maintains a library' of public 
domain and shareware soft¬ 
ware. Try them. And enjoy 
some of the better bargains in 
the Mac marketplace .—DB 


THE RUMOR 
MANAGER 


There are lots of office 
pools at Apple these days. 
One of the most active Is the 
one that pays off on when 
the 1,000,000th Mac Is 
produced. The busiest Is on 
when that Mac will be 
sold, . . . the spell checker 
boomlet will continue with 
some real great programs 
and some astoundlngly low 
prices ■ , * MacUghtn/ng 
will touch off a whole new 
Mac industry . * colorizing 
equipment prices (currently 
$10G and up) will drop by at 
least half as a lot of equip¬ 
ment is sold in 1986 * * * 
enhancement packages 
that patch the new ROM 
(mostly to gain increased 
speed) will be very popular 
* . . the release date of the 
next new Mac Is allegedly 
late August, with the an¬ 
nouncement coming around 
July 4th .. , be looking for 
a significant change In the 
Mac Interface that will be 
fully compatible with the 
current standards ... by 
June 1st there will be more 
hard disks available for the 
Mac than there are data¬ 
bases . , . Apple will buy 
IBM (for cash) ... a soft¬ 
ware biggie is about to quit 
the Mac market . * . two 
"big" names will be joining 
Apple to work on the next 
Mac. As a result some origi¬ 
nal Mac team members will 
leave Apple . . . heard much 
about the Atari 520ST and 
the Amiga lately? 


20 MACUSER APRIL 19 86 


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MAKE YOUR MAC 
LOOK LIKE AN IBM 


CtwirlooM iUw an ISM monflchrDm# marvltar 


January ii>hue we 

said that 7he Home Accoun¬ 
tant (by Haba/Arrays/Conti- 
nental) was a fine program 
(It easily merits its 4-mouse 
rating) r but it wasn't accept 
able for keeping tax records 
due to its copy-protection 
scheme. That comment 
sparked a spirited debate 
on CompuServe's MAUG fo¬ 
rum, involving users, poten¬ 
tial users, a representative 
of the publisher and one of 
the program's authors. After 
ail was said, the publisher 
responded by removing the 
copy protection. To which 
we can only say, Bravo! 

The unprotected version 
is numbered 1.03. If you 
buy the package and get an 
earlier version, send in your 
warranty card to get 1.03. If 
you already have your free 
backup, send the disk 
marked “Backup" in and It 
will be replaced with a new, 
unprotected version. 

Now that the product Is 
not copy protected, it can be 


wrioieiitrcirieuiy recommend¬ 
ed for keeping your tax or 
any other financial records. 
Be sure to make frequent 
backups of both program 
and data and don't 
copies away. 

The good people 

VUE Development have_ 

decided to unprotect their 
excellent database OverVUE 
2.0. The unprotected ver¬ 
sion will be numbered 2.0c, 
This step makes an already 
superb product even better. 

And Forethought, publish¬ 
ers of Factfinder and File - 
Maker, released unprotect¬ 
ed versions of their products 
long ago. 

The trend towards unpro¬ 
tecting useful software 
seems to be gathering 
steam. Let's hope it contin¬ 
ues. It will if people make 
their feelings known to pub¬ 
lishers, support the prod¬ 
ucts that are not protected 
and, most Importantly, not 
condone or participate in pi¬ 
rating these products .—SB 


Ridiculed by Office- 
mates? Snubbed by Man¬ 
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your work done in *4 the 
time of your co-workers . . . 
But why put up with the 
taunting and teasing when 
you can snap on this handy 
PC lookalike! 


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Monitor vent 
is aligned with 
the Macintosh S 
cooling vents 


Brightness control 
attaches to the 
Macintosh 


3" fan makes 
noisy ISM PC sound. 
Special feature 
allows fan to be 
disconnected 
When no one eLse 
is m the office 


Handy power switch 
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The first enhancements for 
the Macintosh have already 
been announced. Some of the 
most spectacular promise to 
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WEST COAST REPORT 



GHOST OF A 
CHANCE 

by Michael D. Wesley 


M ac businesses have sprung up in 
some interesting places. As was the 
case in the early days of the personal 
computer business, Mac software and 
hardware developers often work out of 
their basements, garages, hack rooms, 
even attics. Sometimes they work out of 
other people’s basements, garages, back 
rooms or artics—like their parents’. 

1 know 1 of at least one Bay Area 
company that worked out of an attic 
until recently. You got to their “space” 
by climbing a somewhat rickety wooden 
ladder located just behind the cluttered 
office of a communin' theater. Upstairs, 
half a dozen Macs and Lisas in various 
states of undress were scattered across 
several makeshift workbenches. Half a 
dozen young people worked intently on 
numerous projects, talking enthusiasti¬ 
cally and knowledgeably about hardware 
design and marketing while their heads 
scraped against the ceiling. Of course the 
advantage to such a setup is tile low 
overhead. 

Companies like this exemplify the joys 
and pains of entrepreneurship—die 
American dream of starring your own 
business. Entrepreneurial companies 
have varying degrees of success. Some of 
them have difficulty ever arriving at a 
finished produce or run out of money 
before they get the chance. Others get a 
working product out the door but for 
any of several reasons cannot build or 
sustain a market for it. Still others 
achieve a measure of success and contin¬ 
ue For a long time as small, family-type 
operations. 

The computer industry has had its 
share of highly successful entrepreneurs, 
companies that literally began in the 
garage or basement and have gone on to 
generate sales in the billions. 

In a very real way, these companies 
grow so big and so fast that the entrepre¬ 
neurial spirit can get lost—buried in 
bureaucracy', paperwork, and office poli¬ 
tics. When the entrepreneurship has 
sailed, some big companies have started 
to bring in a new ship to cake its place— 
intrapreneurship. 

Someone has a great idea that the 


company, a large multinational comput¬ 
er maker, for example, recognizes as a 
great idea (not a small feat in itself). A 
separate organization is set up within the 
company to'make the idea happen, giv¬ 
ing the managers and idea people a 
chance to start their own company, yet 
stay under the protective umbrella of 
mother, in this way, key people stay' with 
die company rather than going out on 
their own; die company can explore new 
markets in creative ways, and a good idea 
doesn't fall through the cracks. 

The creation of Macintosh is a pretty 
good example of intrapreneurship. Apple 
is a place that seems to generate lots of 
good ideas. 

Pmcwrship aside, even big computer 
companies have to draw die line some¬ 
place, Some projects are too big, too 
small, or too competitive with third 
party' products to justify' developing 
diem, even intraprencurially. A great 
idea for a nice little piece of software or 
hardware, perfect for a nice little compa¬ 
ny, may still fall through the cracks in a 
multinational computer company. 

With all these prcncurships in the 
water, there must be one especially de¬ 
signed to navigate these treacherous seas. 
We have entre- and intra-, so what’s 
missing* 

.Something extra; extraprencurship. If 
die big computer company (not wishing 
to tread on the toes of the third-parry 
developers it needs in order to sell its 
computers), has a great little prodtict, 
perhaps it could seed a new little outside 
company. One or two management peo~ 
pie, originally involved in the great ion of 
the product in-house, could be set up in 



their own great little company' to devel¬ 
op, produce, and market the great little 
product. Ultimately, it belongs to the big 
computer company, which quietly re¬ 
tains the copyright or patents. 

The big company could launch several 
extrapreneurships, then let the new com¬ 
pany^ principals take the ships as far as 
they could, This would be advantageous 
for everyone. The more companies there 
are developing software for a given com¬ 
puter, die better it would be for the big 
computer company, because software 
sells computers, and the better it would 
be for consumers because rhere would be 
software solutions for a wider variety of 
problems. Extraprencurship would even 
be advantageous for small or medium¬ 
sized diird party companies because they 
would be compering with companies 
their own size, rather than having to face 
the big computer company head on. 

Extraprencurship, which essentially 
boils down to ghost publishing, is a very 
interesting concept. Perhaps I should 
suggest it to some big computer compa¬ 
nies. Or maybe they’ve already discov¬ 
ered it. Hut might explain why some 
third party Macintosh products have the 
words “Copyright Apple Computer” 
embedded deep within their code. 

I don’t think vve have exhausted the 
possibilities of prcncurships yet. I would 
like to propose one more; retropreneur- 
ship, 

A big software company puts pressure 
on a big computer company to keep a 
product off the market because it would 
compete unfairly' with the software com¬ 
pany’s product. “Unfairly” because die 
newcomer is better, for example. You’d 
think that the big computer company 
would simply be stuck with a dead 
product. Bur people inside the computer 
company might really like their product, 
and be unhappy that it got killed. 

The designers or programmers may 
have to send the product out the only 
way diev can—through the hack door. 
The “dead” product is handed discreetly 
to close friends and begins quietly to 
appear on bulletin boards. In short order 
it becomes a cult product, a must for 
every' discerning owner of a given com¬ 
puter. Rerroprcneurship—another inter¬ 
esting concept. 

NEW STUFF 

Moving back to dry land, an entrepre¬ 
neurial company called Symmetry- is do¬ 
ing some very interesting things. Its 
latest offering is a program called Picture* 
Base that catalogs MacPaint images in 
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through the file picture by picture. Full 
page MacPamt works can be seen and 
manipulated in miniature, so it is easy to 
copy a larger-chan-screen image from 
place to piacc, PicturcBasc looks like it 
could be a valuable product for anyone 
who keeps a large collection of dip art, 
design^ or other MacPaint images. 

Symmetry is currently working on 
another exciting product called Acta, 
although it may not be quite finished 
when you read this. Acta is an outline 
processor that works as a desk accessory. 
Ideas can be put down in topics and 
several levels of subtopics, all of which 
can be moved around as the outline takes 
shape, A built-in formatter takes a com¬ 
pleted outline and automatically formats 
it according to any of several types 
(LA.L, 1*1*1, etc.) Text can be moved 
freely from Acta to any Mac word pro¬ 
cessor or text handler (spreadsheet or 
database, for example) and back again, 
Acta should also be worth a close look, 
(Symmetry is a Mesa, Arizona company 
that can be reached at 602-844-2199.) 

Racal-Vadic, makers of communica¬ 
tions equipment and modems, is putting 
together a terminal package for the Mac. 
Called MncGeorge, it is a very easy to use. 
Mac-enhanced version of its George soft¬ 
ware for the IBM PC, with foil window¬ 
ing and menus. MacGtorge will come 
complete with a modem cable and tiny 
screwdriver so you 1 !I have everything you 
need to get started in communications 
except a modem. MacGcorjjt will work 
cither with RacaLVadie's line of modems 
or other Mac modems. It is supposed to 
be folly Hayes compatible. (Racal-Vadk 
is located in Milpitas, CA, 408-946- 
2227.) 

On a final note, Dash Chang of Chang 
Labs, makers of Rags to Riches account¬ 
ing software for the Macintosh, believes 
that software should emulate human 
thinking processes. In this way, pro¬ 
grams are intuitive to operate by design, 
not just because of flashy windowing or 
point and click. Inventory . the latest and 
perhaps the best product in the R/wjj to 
Rklm line, is an example. 

Inventory will be able to act as a receipt 
generator at point of sale in small busi¬ 
nesses and track incoming and outgoing 
product movements. With a myriad of 
built-in reports, Inventory can help the 
small business person get a better handle 
on what products sell and why. Accord¬ 
ing to Chang, it will work well as a 
standalone product, or will integrate 
with other Rqgs to Riches modules. Inven¬ 
tory will sell for $195, the same price as 
the other modules. (Chang Labs is locat¬ 
ed in San Jose, CA, and its number is 
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Y ou’d like to be as wealthy as me, 
wouldn’t you? And as winy—yet pro¬ 
found. Not to mention my dashing 
(yet endearing) good looks. 

I can’t help you with looks. I can, 
however, help you become a Famous 
Computer Columnist. Everyone, of 
course, wants to be a Famous Computer 
Columnist. The work’s easy, the pay is 
good, you get to he a “somebody” 
and—best of all—you can scam lots of 
free stuff. 

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Read on. 
First, find a magazine This won’t be 
hard. Even with magazines dropping like 
flics (I never liked Dave Ahl anyway), 
there are still plenty of magazines that'll 
take you on* Magazines like knowing 
they’ve got a regular chunk of something 
to put between the ads. Pick your target. 

Next, submit a few sample columns. 
These should be provocative, opinionat¬ 
ed, slick and easy to read. Here’s how to 
do it: be fervent* Everyone loves ferver- 
ency. Or is it ferverentness? Anyway, do 
that* You can be dissipated and boring 
and pompous and self-indulgent and lull 
of angst later on. For now, be fervent. 
And perky. If you can’t manage perky, be 
passionate* Be passionate about copy 
protection; that’s an easy one. (A hint; 
be against it. Passionately against it*) 
Write a few sample columns* Make 
them all the same length. Send them in. 
Give the impression that you’re prolific, 
punctual, and easy to work with. 

That should do it* You’re now a 
Computer Columnist. Kick back. 

No, don’t kick back. It’s dog cat dog 
out there. Being a columnist isn’t 
enough; you’ve got to daw your way to 
the top of the heap* After all, you want 
m be a Famous Computer Columnist! 
Sure it’s “Dynasty,'’ but it’s necessary. If 
you're not at the top, your column can 
be dropped. No columns, no checks. 
You probably couldn’t get a real job 
anyway* Sharpen your fingernails. 


Now die important part: be remem¬ 
bered* Being remembered is more im¬ 
portant than being right, or being 
"nice,” or anything else. If you’re re¬ 
membered, you'll be read again. And 
you’ll get "word of mouth.” You're on 
vour wav when people mention your 
name. 

How to be remembered? The easiest 
way is to be a jerk. Be mean, be critical, 
be a jerk. Dump on people, companies, 
and things. The nastier the better* You’ll 
be remembered. It works. Trust me. 

Besides, it’s hard work to be fair, or to 
accurately analyze anything or anybody. 
That takes time and effort and under¬ 
standing* You’re nor gerting paid 
c:notigl i for u n d e rst an d i ng. 

Ifs simple contrariness. Find out what 
everybody likes, then dump on it* Or 
chccrlead for a despised underdog: that’s 
also a good tactic* Pick a hunk of junk, 
then tout it as “really the best system,” 
Junk abounds; it shouldn’t be hard. 
(And don’t be afraid to go overboard* 
Cheer lead for a ridiculously lousv system 
like the Atari ST. Nobody will believe 
you, but people will think there must be 
a hidden meaning in the column. Hid¬ 
den meanings are good—they make you 
look profound.) 

But don’t settle for being a mere jerk. 
Be an arrogant jerk. When vou want 
software or hardware, call up and ask for 
it. Say you want to write about it* (You 
usually won’t write about the products. 


but say you will—companies like that). 

Be rude and demanding* Look at it 
this way: advertising is incredibly expen¬ 
sive, Free publicity is, well, free. Any 
fool knows that* (Except Lotus, that is* 
If you can scam free stuff from Lotus, 
give me a call; we need to talk* I wrote a 
book about Jazz and couldn’t scam a 
single release copy!) 

Stan scamming, start being a jerk, and 
starr cultivating contacts* Be obsequious 
(don’t know what that means? Look it 
up. Fin head!) to a few select vendors. 
They’ll give you “inside stuff’ you can 
use in your columns. 

There's never enough “inside sni IT,” 
though. That's okay Don't be afraid to 
make stuff up* Who’s to know? Try this: 
'"Apple's Ultra-Mac project has produced 
its first prototype machine* It’s rumored 
to have 1024 by 1024 resolution, with a 
palette of 256 colors.” 

How’m I doing? (Oh, don’t get ner¬ 
vous. Nobody will remember your little 
fictions. What they will remember r.s that 
you deliver "inside stuff.” That's what's 
important*) 

Next, start expanding your fame* 
Hang out with Rich Computer People* 
Let it be known that you hang out with 
Rich Computer People. If you can’t 
hang out with Steve Jobs, hang out with 
Wozntak. Or Bill Budge. Or Chris Craw¬ 
ford. (By the way: name dropping is 
always good*) Or fern- Pournelle's aunt. 
Anybody, even Formerly Rich Compile- 



28MACU5ER APRIL 1986 


PETER BONO 








or People or Failed Capitalists will do, in 
a pinch. 

Get invoked in other projects. You 
probably can’t program, because pro¬ 
gramming is hard. (Pretending that you 
can program, though, is good. Go 
ahead: pretend; nobody will make you 
prove it.) 

Write a few books. You’re a computer 
columnist. Getting a contract will be 
easy. You can’t write anything bur col¬ 
umns? Don’t sweat it! Have one of your 
friends ghost write the boob, for a fee, 
{It's easy. It works. It’s been done.) 

Go to all the computer shows. Be a 
speaker. Go to all the parties. Throw a 
few parties. Schmooze, You gotta 
schmooze. Think of it as glad-handing 
for die eighties. 

The alternative (or possibly adjunct) 
to schmoozing is hiring a public rela¬ 
tions firm, A PR firm can write your bio, 
get you on radio and TV talk shows and 
make you a “somebody." A top firm, like 
Rogers 5c Cowan in LA, will nick you 
for $3,000 a month. 

Schmoozing is cheaper. Name drop¬ 
ping is cheaper. 

Now that you’re well-known, it’s time 
to tlex your muscles. Destroy somebody 
or some company. Ravage them in print. 
Ravage them thoroughly and completely 
or snidely and off-handedly. Hither will 
work. 

This, besides being immense fun, is ' 
necessary. You can’t be a Famous Com¬ 
puter Columnist unless you’re also 
Somebody to be Reckoned With. Do it. 
Blood under the nails is good for your 
career. 

Mix praise and a few “discoveries" in 
among the ravaging. It’ll solidify your 
“Insider status.” IfU help you get more 
free stuff from link companies. Think 
synergy, 

" And that’s it! It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s “do¬ 
able." Go for it. 

Have a nice April, everyone. 

PS: My editors at MacUscr read this 
column, then pointed to the column’s 
title and said “You didn't say anything 
about the Macintosh.” 

Okay, okay. How about a little 
“What’s hot and what’s not?” Charlie 
Jackson does it in MACazmc, 1 can do it 
here. Here’s what’s hot: Mac Under¬ 
ground, TMON , a\LicEosy from Aegis 
Development {a must-have for Mac C 
programmers), the Skipfmdcr desk ac¬ 
cessory (shareware), and PmvcrMath 
from Brainpower. 

What’s not hot? The Amiga system 
software (quick, hand me a spoon), and 
anything (except games) that’s copy pro¬ 
tected. Pm passionately against copy 
protection (wouldn't ya know?)^ 


M Mac Underground is a dream 
come true for Macintosh™ 
Power Hardware People!" 

Doug Clapp, co-author of The Complete Macintosh Sourcebook 


HI. I’m Jerry Daniels (national director 
of Mac Underground) sitting in for our 
regular corporate image--Mr. Rick. We 
chose Rick and his French Resistance 
image to illustrate our position as 
distributors of high-grade intelligence, 
far-out equipment, and technical support. 

You've probably seen Mr, Rick in our 
other ads. He's a good guy, but he 
smokes too much,,.so while he’s away at 
a sm ok e-end ers weekend, I thought I'd 
slip in and comment on Doug's quote. 

Doug Gapp became a member of the 
Mac Underground last summer. Pm 
pleased ihat-as a member-he thinks we're 
the organization for Mac power hardware 
people. WE think we're spreading the 
power of the Mac over a larger base of 
people —and crtoting more power users. 

The Underground does give you a 
"power edge". We supply you with first¬ 
hand knowledge and direct access to 
equipment that will transform your Mac. 
We help you discover the souped-up, 
super computer you need to ride the 
tumultuous waves of the information age 
all the way into the twenty-first century. 

A TICKET TO RIDE 

A ticket to the future via the Mac 
Underground will cost you $39.95. It’s 
good for a year. For that kind of money 
you gel a copy of our telecommunications 
software Underground Courier™, twelve 
months of unlimited entrance (via your 
modem and phone) to an Underground 
SafeHousc™, free member classifieds, and 
access to outrageous discounts on hard¬ 
ware, software and accessories for the Mac 
direct from Online Publishing Systems. 
(More on OPS later.) 

Let's get back to Courier and the Safe- 
Houses it accesses: we think Courier 
represents a real landmark in tele com¬ 
munications, You use it with a Hayes- 
compatible modem to point/click your 
way into a local SafeHousc. 

Once in a SafeHousc you can copy 
daily intelligence reports, Mac article 
abstracts, art, documented public domain 
programs, and demo software. You can 
also send messages to your MU Bishop™ 
(the person who runs your SafeHousc), 
But local SafeHouscs arc not just outlets 
for our info. Read the next column. 



A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE 

The Underground SafeHouscs provide 
service, support, and install at ion for a 
company called Online Publishing 
Systems, OPS is an Apple value-added 
reseller (VAR), OPS sells its Mac 
value-added products directly to our 
members. This is the same sort of 
strategic alliance that Apple has with 
General Electric. Maybe on a different 
scale, though, huh? 

For some, our best feature is still the 
the great deals on products that OPS 
offers to our members (and other 
selected clubs, fraternities, and 
associations). These products include 
innovative hardware items like the OPS 
Internal Mac Modem designed by Larry 
Dziegiclcwski, master engineer for OPS. 

YOU CAN GET INVOLVED 

If you look at the list of SafeHouscs 
below and don't see your state, you 
should apply for a SafeHouse license. 
Licenses aren't free, but you've probably 
got the hardware you need to get started, 
and Bishops make money! (No vows of 
poverty here,) 

Maybe we really are a dream come 
true! Call us and decide for yourself. 
Ask for a complete dossier on the Mac 
Underground (brochure for those who 
donT like spy jargon). Or, better yet, 
just get it over with and join the 
Underground. Doug can't be that far off* 
can he? 


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The MagNet’’" 20 Meg Multiuser Internal Hard Drive 


The MagNet 20“ Hard Drive 

Mirror Technologies introduces one of the most 
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MagNet 20 combines great value, expandability, 
speed and portability to give your Mac amazing 
capabilities. 



This Internal Hard Drive 
1$ Fast And Portable 

Mirror Technologies has teamed up with Infosphere, 
to develop a special version of MacServe" (XL- 
Serve, the predecessor of MacServe, is the most 
popular AppleTalk" network software in the world!) 
MacServe software adds all of the capabilities 
and features of the best Mac hard drives available 
today, plus the ability to share peripherals, programs 
and data with multiple computers. As your needs 
grow the MagNet 20 already contains the power 
and versatility to handle your computing to go. 

Packed With Features 

The MagNet 20 allows you to print spool, disk 
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MagNet 20 is the most powerful single or multiuser 
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Apple a nd Macintosh are rcKislered trade marks of Apple Computer, Inc. MagNet 20 is a 
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and your Mac can travel with confidence. 

The Powerful Single User Solution 

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SPANISH 
GRAMMAR III Hi 

List Price: $34.95 Published by Queue , 5 
Chapel Hill Dr.. Fairfield * CT 06432. (203) 
335-0906. 

Spanish grammar tit, owe in a series of four 
programs on Spanish grammar, is a tutorial 
program meant for teachers to use with 
students who require reviews in the Spanish 
language. It is not targeted for beginners or 
anyone who wishes to start a new language 
from scratch. Previous knowledge of the 
language is needed to get any value from it. 
Even the manual is clearly labeled 'Teach¬ 
er’s Manual." 

Spanish Grammar Ill's interactive nature 



uses multiple choice and fill-in formats. A 
lesson selection is made by clicking on one 
of the ten grammar lessons, which brings 
up a name input screen. Then the selected 
lesson starts with a brief synopsis of usage, 
and examples for the grammar being test¬ 
ed. (This is also available in the Help menu 
for easy access during a lesson.) 

Lessons can be approached in any order, 
but it's best to handle each in succession, 
since each lesson following is built on 
ideas introduced earlier. The user has the 
choice of working on one, two or as many 
lessons as he or she can handle at a time. 
In the beginning of each module there are 
instructions as to how the review is to be 
approached One question at a time ap¬ 
pears on-screen, with the keyboard or 
mouse used for responses. The keyboard 
can be used to enter an answer in a box 
with a cursor that follows the question, or 
students can answer simply by clicking on 
any of the boxes labeled A to E. feedback is 
immediate and responsive. When a student 
answers Incorrectly, the correct answer is 
shown and explained. A Time menu allows 
the user to see how long the lesson has 
taken so far, although Spanish Grammar III 
does not allow for saving a lesson to 
resume at a later time. 

At the end of each lesson there is a 
summary with data on how many questions 


were attempted, how many were correct, 
and a percentage-based score for the user, 
which is automatically added to the Teach¬ 
ers Management Report, (The Score menu 
gives a condensed form of this for viewing 
during a lesson,) The Teachers Manage¬ 
ment Report allows the teacher to check on 
students’ work. Up to 20 names per screen 
are listed for each module worked on and 
for each time, even if the module Is done 
twice. After 40 records, the 40th record is 
automatically deleted when the next person 
uses the program since new names are 
entered from the top. 

The Management system is meant only 
for the teacher s use and. therefore, is put 
on-screen in a very obscure system so 
students can't get to it on their own. To 
select the Management Report, the teacher 
clicks in a circle at the upper right hand 
corner of the title screen Progress for each 
student can be viewed on screen, printed or 
erased A major design flaw in the erase 
option is that it clears the whole system of 
all the records when put into operation. Any 
one record for any student cannot be 
erased on its own. That means the only way 
of keeping a record permanently is to print 
it out. 

Despite its minor flaws. Spanish Gram¬ 
mar /// carries off what it means to in a clear 
and constructive manner.—OG 


A MIND FOREVER 
VOYAGING Hit 

List Price: $44.95, Requires at feast 512K. 
tnfocom , 125 CambrldgePark Dr.. Cam¬ 
bridge. MA 02140. (617) 492-6000 . 

Infocom has a problem, its designers have to 
try harder to get Mac owners’ interest be¬ 
cause their games avoid all the joys of the 
Mac interface. For Mac users, text adven¬ 
tures start out in second place There is no 
use of the mouse, or of the graphic and 
sound capacity of the machine. Adding 
insult to injury. Infocom persists in using 
pictures of IBM disks on their Mac pack¬ 
ages. 

Despite these handicaps, A Mind Forever 
Voyaging has a gripping, imaginative story 
and poses enough mental challenges to 
thoroughly engross most players. The plot 
ts truly unique. 

Players are asked to assume a most 
unusual role. They begin by reading a short 
story, provided (heretically) In hard copy in 


the game package. Once you start out, you 
are given the shocking news that your 
life time of experiences and memories was 
carefully engineered. You are not human; 
you're an experimental computer. 

Most of the difficulty in the game lies, 
like an infant initially testing the capacities 
of its body and mind, in learning how to use 
your senses and abilities. In one of your 
memory modes, you are a young married 
man with a career and a son, In other 
modes you're unable to touch, have no 
human (body) functions, but do have other 
powers. 

Your task is to determine the viability of a 
special and crucial government plan. You 
can utilize one mode to visit the future. 
Your task is to bring back recordings of 
specified elements to be reviewed by a 
committee. 

An innovative aspect of the game is that 
you'll gradually come to the realization that 
you are "on your own" after the initial task 
has been completed. Considerable initia¬ 
tive is required to complete the next two 
phases of the game. 

On the negative side, the setting is more 


humorless than most Infocom games, And 
some of the tasks become repetitious. 
AMFV does not warrant its advanced cate¬ 
gory rating. After the difficult adaptation to 
the role, there are only a few actual puzzles 
to be solved. One of these puzzles (in spite 
of exalted promises about the fine parser) 



is precisely how to phrase what you want to 
communicate to the game. The instructions 
have you believe there are no such prob¬ 
lems. Despite these drawbacks, AMFV is a 
true adventure and a trip in imagination 
well worth taking —Linda Joan Kaplan 


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THE DUBL-CLICK 
CALCULATOR 
CONSTRUCTION 
SET mu 

List Price: $99. 512K. Published by Dubh 
Click Software t 18201 Gresham St.. North - 
ridge, CA 91321. (818) 349-2758 . 

THE QU8L-CUC* calculator construction set 
makes it easy to design custom calculators 
that install as desk accessories on your 
Mac disks. Using MacPaint-like tools, pre¬ 
designed keys are dragged onto a calcula¬ 
tor shell and positioned. The shell can be 
stretched with a "rubber band" tool and can 
be much larger than it initially appears 

A parts box window contains all the 
shapes and special items that can be 


placed on a calculator. There are four basic 
types of keys—alphanumeric, function, pro¬ 
grammable and macro—In a variety of 



shapes. Keys are dragged onto the shell, 
then "wired" (assigned a function) by click¬ 
ing on the key with the electricai plug icon. 
Macro keys are assigned a permanent se* 
quence of specific operations as the calcu¬ 


lator is being built. Programmable keys can 
be assigned new functions at any time. 
The calculator shell can hold up to 100 
items {which may Include icons to print to 
the fmageWrrter or a text file), a small 
calendar, or various timer functions, as well 
as standard mathematical, financial and 
scientific operations. All of a calculator's 
keys can be wired so that entries can be 
made directly from the keyboard. 

Calculators are saved as desk accessory 
files that are loaded with Font/DA Mover, or 
they can be made to self-install automati¬ 
cally on the startup disk. Finished calcula¬ 
tors take at least 7K of memory, A scientific 
calculator with special features may take 
20K or more. The program checks available 
memory before Installing a new calculator. 
The manual is small but excellent, and 
The Dubl-Cltck Calculator Construction Set 
is easy to use.— MOW 


RECORD HOLDER iU 

List Price : $49.95, Software Discoveries, 
99 Crestwood Rd., Tolland CT06084. (203) 
872-1024 

Record holder is fairly simple, but irs a pow¬ 
erful data manager. Its strengths are its 
ease of use and price. There's a tot here, 
far more than its low price would seem to 
promise, 

Set up is flexible. Users simply create 
what fields they wish on a master record 
Using simple click and drag techniques, a 
very large number of fields of very large size 
can be quickly created, Fields can contain 
up to 32K characters (when working on a 
512K or Mac Plus). Fields are specified to 
be of a particular type (text, numeric, date, 
etc.),The arrangement can easily be modi¬ 
fied, except for the field type. Unfortunate¬ 
ly, only the default font is available and 
graphics cannot be added to the records. 

Data entry follows standard Mac conven¬ 
tions, A nice feature is an automatic Save 
feature, which periodically saves your work. 


minimizing data loss if a crash occurs. 
Dates are particularly well handled, as the 
program has the ability to convert dates 
between its three formats, 

Files have a table of contents in the form 
of a scrollable window that lists ail that 
file's records. Double clicking on a record 
name brings that record to the screen. 

Reports are well handled. Simply arrange 
the fields you need on a report form. These 
forms can be up to 16 inches wide and can 
include page headers. Mathematical func¬ 
tions such as total, average and count are 
available. After setting up the report tem¬ 
plate. users select what range of records is 
to be scanned for the report. 

Searching records is the heart of the data 
manager function. Record Holder searches 
better than the average database. The 
search functions are both simple to use 
and, at the same time, versatile. They can 
contain wildcards. Indeed, it is possible to 
search on virtually any part of any element 
of any field, 

Reports can be previewed to the screen 
and printed to the ImageWriter. They don’t 
print correctly on the LaserWriter. 


The manual is written for users who are 
not database pros, It s mce to see a manual 
so well planned for the program's target 
audience. There Is also considerable on¬ 
screen help. Most users will read the man¬ 
ual to get started and then never require it 
again. 

Record Holder isn't for everyone. Its lack 
of advanced features and its inability to use 
other than its default fonts (and total lack 
of graphics) limit its applicability. But if the 
features are sufficient, and they are for 
many applications, this program is a true 
bargain,—SB 



GRID WARS m 

List Price: $39.95 Published by Ann Arbor 
Sof (works, Inc,, 308Vu S. State Street. Ann 
Arbor, Ml 48014 (313) 996-3838. 

"I NEED A DRfNRl" 

Wiping the comet dust of his shoulder, 
the unwary human looked around the bleak 
insides of the bar. "Sparks," he thought, 
“of all the places I have to walk into, l 
choose this dump. Looks like something 


out of that old movie, hell, was it called 
Space Wars, Star Bores, nuts,,.," 

Without warning, he felt something grab¬ 
bing him, lifting him effortlessly into the 
air. The stench of alien sweat was strong 
"Human! You no read?! No humans 
here!” 

Our hero turned to face the voice, and felt 
his intestines cringe. He was face to face 
with something that looked like a wookie 
with a mohawk. And that breath! 

" Listen, all 1 want is a lousy drink, and I'll 
be outta here faster than you can sav 


plutonium milkshake, ” 

"No, human will play Grid Wars, then if 
alive, will drink.,," 

"But.,." 

The next moment he was sitting in front 
of a large black table, facing another alien. 
Its breath was worse, and its complexion 
was like a greemite pizza. He glanced down 
and saw a beige keyboard with three keys, 
labeled laser cannon, torpedoes and a red 
key with the faded word VaporizerT There 
was also a small box attached to a cord. A 
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"Human," croaked his opponent, "you 
will defend your position, I throw energy 
zingers, voltage pies, other nasties, you 
launch energizer spheres, try to destroy 
them. Energizer Spheres act like projec¬ 
tiles, they fly with parabolic motion. Mouse 
moves your sights back and forth horizon¬ 
tally. You point to place on grid you want 
shoot, hit mouse button. Keyboard for tor¬ 
pedoes and vaporizer" 

Good thing I majored in ancient physics, 
thought the human, 

"My photon field advances towards you. 

You constantly bombard it, or energy ten- Thanks a tot, he thought 

drils reach you. destroy you Vaporizers "t get tired, you win, you play next guy. 

destroy everything on the board. You get Fifteen of us watting to play You lose, we 

one vaporizer. You play good, you get bury you in titanium tube. We have fun, 

more, 1 * yes?" 



Td rather just get my drink and get 
going. ,,,*■ 

The alien's eyebrow (or something) 
arched up high. "We play!" 

Out of nowhere, an extraterrestrial pretty 
whispered in his ear, "Just do what he says, 
if you've played this type of game before, 
you know what will happen. Play it long 
enough, you'll get really good at it, and 
you'll both want to move on to something 
more Interesting, maybe even fight over 
me..,; 

Our friend began to sweat. "But when do I 
win? What do I get if I beat you?" 

A low titter went through the throng of 
creatures, "You find out!" was the last thing 
he heard, as an energy ball came flying out 
of nowhere,,,.—DO 


MACINOOGA 

choo-choo am 

List Price: $39. Published by Fortnum Soft¬ 
ware, 31 W. Sierra Madre Btvd., Sierra 
Madre , CA 91024 , (818) 355-7114. 

Toy trains, model railroads, and computers go 
back a long way. Many of the early hackers 
met and worked at MIT's Tech Model Rail¬ 
road Club, While they made significant 
advances in computing, they never did get 
the trains computerized—until very recent¬ 
ly. Now Macfnooga Choo-Choo really brings 
toy trains and computers together, That's 
because Mac/nooga is a true electronic 
train set. 

The program comes with five layouts 
ready to run. The different layouts illustrate 
all of the program’s features. Some have 
invisible track, others glory in their Mac¬ 
Paint-created scenery. All are fun to oper¬ 


ate, Just beware of crashes, which lead to 
results unimaginable on the real thing. 
The layouts provided are easy to modify 
using the wide range of tools available. 
Simple program-generated scenery can be 
added to MacPaint* created scenery that is 
already in place. Users can add signals, 
which will stop trains if they're set to, 
uncouplers, more locomotives and more 
cars. Several designs of each type are 
provided on a handy Train palette. 

Once the layout Is set, trains are set into 
motion with the mouse and all speed and 
directional control is accomplished with the 
mouse. Be careful when running trains, or 
you'll crash them! Crashes of electronic 
trains are rather different from crashes of 
electric trains (or programs, for that mat¬ 
ter), Here crashed trains proceed on their 
rather merry way. They look and move as 
though they were drunk! 

Empire builders can start from scratch 
and build up a reasonable layout. Just like 
real toy trains, the space available is limit¬ 


ed. but ample for all but the most land- 
greedy. As in real life, it is better to lay your 
track after you do the scenery. Laying 



multiple tracks is accomplished using the 
Burrow command which allows the builder 
to treat each element in the grid square 
separately. 

About all that's missing is the electrical 
smell of warm motors and transformers and 
the ability to view your creation from any¬ 
thing other than a bird's-eye view.—SB 


copy ii mac aa 

Ust Price . $39 95. Published by Central 
Point Software, #100, 9700 SW Capitol 
Highway , Portland. OR 97219. <*503; 244- 
5782. Version 4,5 reviewed , program is 
updated frequently . 

Coer ti MAC MAS made MORE BACKUP COPIES OF MAC 

software than any other program, so many 



that Its title is in danger of becoming a 
verb. Few Mac owners would misunderstand 
a sentence like "Copy // the disk before you 
even run it," 

This notoriety is deserved. The program is 
simple, foolproof, crashproof, idiotproof 
and, most importantly, effective User op* 
tions are limited, which might seem to 
make this program less potent than com¬ 
petitors that let their bells and whistles 
hang out, but in this case it just means that 
the programmers have thought of almost 
everything and built it all right in. The few 
options are explained on a Help screen and 
in the manual. 

few users have any problems and no 
reports of Copy tl crashing have ever gotten 
around. The program's only real flaw is that 
it defaults to its less reliable bit copy mode 
when launched, tricking some users into bit 
copying when they should first do a sector 
copy (it’s really a block copy) first. Copy It 
Mac's sector copier verifies as it works. 


while its bit copier doesn't, so it is perfectly 
possible to introduce new errors when bit 
copying. If the clear manual is followed, all 
Should work properly. 

New versions of Copy it Mac are released 
at frequent intervals and registered owners 
get a chance to update for $18. The up¬ 
dates are usually worth it. as each signifi¬ 
cantly increases the list of programs Copy it 
Mac can back up. 

Also included on the disk are Mscfoo/s 
and Copy It HD (for Hard Disk), MacToots 
combines a good disk editor with excellent 
file management and recovery sections. 
Since it does far more than Copy It Mac , 
most of the manual is devoted to using it 
effectively MacToots is invaluable when 
attempting to salvage lost or damaged 
fifes. It is the easiest to use of all the file 
recovery tools and makes the fewest techni¬ 
cal demands on its users. 

MacToofs also provides simple ways to 
set a files attribute bits (those are the 


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OTHER PRODUCTS 

• Engineering Tool Kit 

• Stats Tool Kit 

• Biomedical Research 
Chart Tool Kit 


Control Charts • Histograms 

^P, NP, U C • Scatter Plots 

XR Charts • Pareto Charts 

Trend Charts » MSBasic 2.0 req’d 


By word of 
mouse* 

Go ahead. Just ask one of the thousands of satisfied 
Mac owners who rely on the Moustrak. The genuine, 
original desktop pad that reduces mouse wear, keeps 
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BY STEVEN BOBKER 


THF 

SOFTWARE 

SHIP 


REVOLUTIONS ARE ODD THINGS. 
Sometimes they are sudden and 
violent. Sometimes you wake up to 
find they've already happened. And 
sometimes a revolution oceurs with¬ 
out your being aware of it at all. 

Examine a revolution; any revolu¬ 
tion will do. All have a few things in 
common. They are ail like fire. Cer¬ 
tain ingredients are necessary. Re¬ 
move one and there is no revolution. 
Revolutions must have a cause, good 
or bad. There must be weapons or 
tools. And someone or something 
must bring everything together at 
the right time. 

Steve Wozniak started a revolu¬ 
tion when he created the first mass- 
produced disk drive for microcom¬ 
puters. The old way of doing things, 
using cassette tapes for data and 
program storage, just didn’t cut the 
mustard. Sure cassette technology 
worked, but almost in spite of itself. 
It was slow and very inefficient. Rut 
it was all there was. People put up 
with it, though they wanted and 
needed something better. That 
'"something better"' was the random 
access disk technology then found 
only on larger, much more expensive 
computers. Woz took that technol¬ 
ogy and made it usable and afford¬ 
able for micro users. It sparked a true 
revolution in data storage. 

Today users are faced with some 
new problems. The first is data glut. 
There is too much data around. 
While some comes on disks, most of 


it is printed (in newsletters and 
newspapers). To rtlakc the best and 
most efficient use of tiliis data, it 
must be somehow converted into 
computer readable form. Manual 
data entry is a solution only if your 
resources arc nearly infinite. Obtain¬ 
ing the material on a disk or via 
telecommunication to a disk is some¬ 
times possible, but usually very ex¬ 
pensive. There has to be a better 
way. 

Even those who program have 
trouble getting their products to 
market. The economics of software 
publishing preclude simple efforts by 
individuals. The costs of disks, of 
duplication, of manuals, packaging 
and distribution all combine to rc- 
quire a substantial investment to 
bring a program to market. Many 
programs (although exactly how 
many no one can say) never see the 
light of day. And we’re all losers for 
that. If only the costs were lower, the 
original outlay less. 

Sure* there’s Freeware or 
shareware or MacHonorWare or 
whatever you want to call it, but die 
number of Mac programmers who 
have made a decent return from it 


can be counted on one hand. What is 
needed is something that might al¬ 
low programmers to sell their work 
at low cost and small investment and 
yet make a profit. The words '"low 
cost'" and '"small investment"" are posi¬ 
tively revolutionary in today’s soft¬ 
ware publishing world. 


A GLIMMER 



A recently developed technology 
may help solve both problems, diat 
of data glut and that of '"cheap'" 
software. Cauzin Systems has creat¬ 
ed a simple to use, easy to print 
method of putting data on paper. Its 
new Softstrip system is relatively 
inexpensive, both from the users’ 
standpoint and from die creators’ 
standpoint. The tiny black and white 
squares pack a lot of data into a small 
space, and the reader is capable of 
retrieving that data under all but die 
worst conditions. 

Cauzin appears committed 
to making its technology easily and 
widely available. That only makes 
sense, for in true capitalistic spirit* 
the more systems sold and the more 
they arc accepted, the higher Cau- 
zin’s 'profits will-be! * 

All the elements for a revolution 
arc in place. There is a problem or 
cause. In fact, there arc several. And 
die weapons or tools arc there. The 
Softstrips and their readers are not 
widely used yet* but they arc there, 
ready and working. And Cauzin 
seems willing to lead us into a new 
era of data and program distribu- , 
tion. The revolution could be hap¬ 
pening at this very moment. 


WHAT YOU SEE 

The Softstrip system is both sim¬ 
ple and complex. The actqal Soft' 
strips are composed of black aiid 
white squares printed on paper, 
They arc the data. Strips are fijad b\ 
a high-tech reading 
to your computer, 
strip results in data o 
a disk. Let’s look at th 
of the system. 

While the Softstrip 
superficial similarity 


ar code. 


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THE SOFTWARE STRIP 



The Reader is mrrv ad and easy to use and store. 


there are two major differences. The 
first, and most important, is the data 
density* Bar codes typically get 
about 3K on a page, while Softstrips 
can pack just over 40K per page. 
The other difference is reading case* 
Bar codes generally have to be man¬ 
ually scanned, a tedious job on all 
but the shortest files* Softstrips are 
read automatically. Users simply 
align a dot and a line on the paper 
with a hole and the edge of the 
reader (and both need be aligned 
only to a tolerance of 1/16th of an 
inch). Strips cannot be read out of 
order; any attempt to do so will be 
thwarted by the software. 

Softstrips encode 8-bit ASCII data 
(common, ordinary everyday stuff; 
all Mac programs can be translated 
into this code) into machine-read¬ 
able form. The resulting encoded 
data can be printed in low*-, medium- 
or high-density strips. The density 
chosen depends both on the means 
used to generate the data strips and 
the quality of the ultimate printing 
process and paper. 

Low-density srrips can store up 


500 bytes in a standard 9.5-inch 
strip, medium-density allows up to 
approximately 3400 bytes per strip 
and high- density contains about 
5500 bytes per strip. Strips can be as 
short as 1 inch long or as long as 9.5 
inches. Their width is determined by 
their density, with low-density strips 
being approximately 1/2 inch wide, 
medium-density 3/4 of an inch and 
high-density approximately 5/8 inch 
wide. 

The data on paper is in the form 
of what Cauzin calls dibits. A dibit is 
two successive squares with a black 
followed by a white representing a 
zero and a white followed by a black 
is a one. Thus each byte consists of 
16 black and white squares in a row. 

Each line of data consists of either 
two, four or six byres, depending on 
die density. As you would expect, 
the higher the density, the more 
bytes per line. Lines therefore con¬ 
tain either 32, 64 or 96 squares plus 
parity and marking information at 
the ends, 

There'S nut much chance of mis¬ 
reading data. Error detection is pro¬ 


vided by three separate techniques. 
First, there’s a parity bit at each end 
of the data lines; one is used to cheek 
the parity of the odd bits, while the 
other is used for the even bits. Each 
line is also checksummed with either 
a normal 8-bit checksum or an op¬ 
tional 16-bit CRC (cyclic redundan¬ 
cy cycle) checksum. And finally, the 
mechanical scanning method effec¬ 
tively scans each up to four times 
and integrates the data to avoid 
problems caused by irregularities in 
the printing process. 

The result of all this is an 
error rate that Ciuzin claims is less 
than one bir in 10,000,000,000 bits. 
We had no read problems in any of 
the materials we tested, mutilated 
and retested. This system seems even 
more immune to error than standard 
electronic media such as disks. 

The real heart of the system, at 
least as far as the end user is concerned, 
Ls the strip reader itself. This electro¬ 
mechanical device weighs a scant 20 
ounces (not including its cast alumi¬ 
num base), and is 16.6 inches long 
bv 2.5 inches high by 3 inches wide. 
It is powered by a small external 
transformer and connects to the 
Mac’s serial modem port. 

The reader is manually positioned 
over each strip, aligning through a 
hole at one end and the reader edge 
at the other. The sensor scans in 
increments of 0,0025 inch and has 
an effective accuracy of 0.00001 
inch. Since data lines are between 
0.01 and 0.04 inches high, each line 
is scanned several times, each time in 
a slightly different location. The sen¬ 
sor’s on-board circuitry integrates 
the density of each half of each dibit 
and decides whether each bit is a 0 
or a 1 based on die multiple versions 
of the information it has obtained. 

The actual reading of the data 
occurs when the sensor illuminates 
the data with near-infrared light. 
This Might, which is generated by a 
light emitting diode (LED), heats 
{very slightly!) the carbon used in 
black ink and photocopier toner. 
The sensor then records die heat 
increase of the dark areas. 

This method of reading has many 
advantages. Users can overwrite da- 
tastrips with colored inks or markers 
and the strips will still be readable. 


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The strips are also immune to such 
disk killers as spilled coffee or soda! 
Just dry the page out and read it. 

On the other hand, writing across 
a strip with an ordinary pencil or 
printing the strip on colored paper 
will copy protect the data in the 
sense that the strip can no longer be 
photo- or xerox copied and used. 
Pencil writing contains carbon and 
so is readable by the sensor. 

Photocopying colored papers usu¬ 
ally alters the background toner 
(which contains carbon) level and, 
again, gives erroneous information 
to the sensor. 

As the reader moves down the 
page it tracks its own lateral move¬ 
ment to within 5 microns. Its align¬ 
ment is controlled by two separate 
servo mechanisms. These self-align¬ 
ment features let the reader handle 
Sofrstrips that are not perfectly flat. 
It is possible to crumple a page 
containing Sofrstrips and then 
smooth it out and read the data 
successfully. More importantly, data 
in magazines can be read without 
any special preparation. The pages 
the data is on do not have to be 
removed and, while they should lie 
reasonably flat, die reader can handle 
normal page warps. This ability to 
correcdv read under less than perfect 
conditions is a major strength of the 
system. 

The optical portion of the scan¬ 
ning system consists of eight rotat¬ 
ing cylindrical lenses and an aspheri- 
eal corrector lens, forming an 
effective aperture of f/12. The system 
has a depth of field between 0.05 
and 0.08 inches, allowing for warp 
in the scanned material. A set of 160 
additional cylindrical lenses on; the 
rotating cylinder allow die system tp 
maintain very exact consol: of the 
scanning rate. 

The mechanic dements arc mostly 
plastics with die actual movement 
controlled by six high-precision 
molded plastic gears. The electronics 
consist of an ATMS 7040 8-bit 
microprocessor and a custom VLSI 
chip that contains the reader logic, 
control and communications using 
four nested phase-locked-loops and 
several hardware and software 
servos* 

The equipment is as sturdy and 


Softstrips. The strip on the left tea 
tow-density strip, that in the middle 
is a medium-density strp and the 
right tend strp is a high-density 
strip. AJf three strips show 
Mainstay Software's tumbling 
Mac demo. The whole program in 
tow density e 2-1£ slrps king : in 
medium density it's one strip and 
a very short second strip; while the 
high-density version s complete. 
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The Caurin ScfUVp Reader. The Transfer menu alows userstotnrodapplications the Reader ha$pulorufi& 


THE SOFTWARE STRIP 

robust as the strips. Some basic tests, 
such as dropping it on the floor 
repeatedly, failed to cause problems. 
Breaking it seems to require a deter¬ 
mined effort. 

The data that the reader collects is 
sent to the Mac in 4800-baud bursts, 
although the average data transfer or 
throughput rate is between 1000 
and 1500 baud, depending on strip 
density and length. A full 9.5-inch, 
high-density strip takes about 30 
seconds to read. 

. - . IS WHAT V0U GET 

The system, at least from the user’s 
viewpoint, is both small and simple. 
Simply buy a reader, which lists for 
under $200. Software and other data 
will be available in various printed 
forms. 

Where do you find this software 
and data? Right now, the sources are 
limited. There is a chicken and egg 
effect in progress. Publishers arc re¬ 
luctant to provide their software and 
data in Softs trip form since there 
aren’t enough readers in users’ hands 
"to make it worthwhile (or cost 
effective or whatever), w Reader sales 
have been slow because rhere’s little 


GETTING STARTED 


Check your dealer first for a reader. 
Some dealers are starting to carry 
them. The list price is $195. Be 
sure you get the Mac version of the 
software, as there are also versions 
for the Apple 11 and the IBM PC. The 
only difference in the readers is in 
the detachable cable that connects 
the reader to your computer. Given 
extra cables and proper software, 
you can use the reader with several 
different computers. 

Program strips, of course, con¬ 
tain material that is computer spe¬ 
cific. Data strips, on the other 
hand, should be in straight ASCII 
code, and thus able to be imported 
to different computers, just as Mac 
files of type TEXT can be sent to 
other machines. 

If your dealer isn't carrying read¬ 
ers yet, contact Cauzin for the name 
and address of a dealer. They can 
be reached at 1-800-533-7323, or 
in Connecticut at 573-0150. 
They're located at 835 South Main 
St. ( Waterbury, CT 06706. 


to read. Why buy a reader to sit and 
gather dust? Cauzin is aggressively 
promoting the use of Softstrips and 
will do some publishing on its own. 
As more strips are published in ads 
and commercially, this problem 
should fade. 

MacUser plans to provide our 
more extensive code listings in this 
form, starting in the next issue or 
two. Other Mac-oriented magazines 
(such as Nibble Mac) either are al¬ 
ready doing that or will be doing 
that. And as soon as demand war¬ 
rants we’ll be providing our indexes 
and other data compcndiums (possi¬ 
bly including our Mini Finders) in 
this new format. 

Newsletters and magazines, par¬ 
ticularly in the financial field, will 
soon be publishing their data in 
Softstrip as well as normal printed 
form. Financial data is an excellent 
candidate for Softstrips, since to be 
most useful, it must be massaged in 
analysis programs. That usually 
mams tedious manual entry, with a 
large probability of a few errors (due 
to typos) creeping in. A Softstrip or 
rwo can save hours of work. 

Apple is thinking of providing 
Mac System software updates in this 
format. As most certified developers 
know, the Software Supplements 
Apple has provided over the last year 
and a half have been on disks, over a 
hundred disks per developer. Some 


of diat material (particularly patches 
to existing programs and files) could 
be more easily provided in Softstrip 
form. 

Other businesses can benefit from 
this technology. Banks, particularly 
smaller banks, can be more competi¬ 
tive by sending customers statements 
in Softstrip form. Having the data 
ready for entry in accounting pro¬ 
grams will be a major convenience 
for customers, both in saving time 
and reducing errors. Other busi¬ 
nesses that now send detailed state¬ 
ments can also provide data in this 
form. 

That’s a little bit in die future, 
however. Right now, users can’t 
generate their own Softstrips. The 
Softstrip technology is proprietary 
to the Cauzin Systems and right now 
Cauzin is the source of all software 
strips, Cauzin will convert material 
of your choosing to Softstrips for a 
fee ($20 per strip, S50 minimum 
order). Thar's not practical for state¬ 
ments and other material where each 
recipient gets different data. 

However, programs to generate 
Softstrips are under development 
and may be available by die time you 
read this. Current plans call for Mac 
software that has the ability to gen¬ 
erate low-density Softstrips on the 
ImageWritcr and medium-density 
Softstrips on the LaserWriter. High- 
density Softstrips will still require 


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service bureau production as they 
use a resolution finer than the 300 
dots per inch that die LaserWriter 
can provide. The materials that Cau- 
zin now produce on its in-house 
equipment are shipped in the form 
of photographic film negatives (po¬ 
sitives arc also available) so that 
maximum quality can be obtained in 
the printing process. 

Most users will not generate their 
own strips, but will use Softstrips 
diev find in magazines and newslet¬ 
ters. Sometimes the Softstrips will be 
part of a booklet consisting of a 
program and its manual. Cauzin 
plans to publish programs under the 
StripWare brand name. These pro¬ 
grams will come complete with man- 
nal and cost between $3 and $13. 
These prices may be low, and they 
show that the overall production and 
publishing costs for software put on 
the market in this new format are 
much lower than in the more tradi¬ 
tional marketing methods. This 
alone can open the market to much 
new software, much as occurred 
when the first Apple disk drives 
lowered die cost (and time involved} 
in producing many copies of pro¬ 
grams. If the Softs trip System 
catches on, as it appears to be doing, 
we can expect an explosion of good, 
low-priced software. 

Softstrip technology offers more 
dian cheap programs. That may be 
its major attraction for some users, 
but there is lots more it can do. The 
possibilities arc nearly endless. Data 
archives can be created, stored and 
filed in traditional office ways (files 
in file cabinets). Backups no longer 
have to eat up expensive storage 
media. And backups of the backups 
are just a trip to the copier away. 

Very large files can be created, 
although as a practical matter some¬ 
where around 75 K should be con¬ 
sidered the maximum size. That's 
because it does take 30 seconds or so 
to read in each strip. A 75K file 
would be 14 or 15 high-density 
srrips. Faster readers are under devel¬ 
opment and eventually file size 
should not be limited in any way. 

Pergamon Press, a major publish¬ 
er of scientific journals, has already 
started putting the table of contents 
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PRINTS IN COLOR ON THE 
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Install MacPalette™ on your application disk, then use 
the PRINT command to print in color from MacDraft©, 
Mac Draw®, Mac Write®, JAZZ®, Chart®, 
MaeProject®, and all odier object orientated programs 
(not MacPaint®). MacPalette™ gives you the ability to 
mix an almost infinite number of color patterns. 


BUY IT FROM YOUR DEALER TODAY! 


For more information, phone CompServCo 

1 - 800 - 272-5533 

MacPalette is another Microspot quality 
product. Dealer inquiries are welcome. 

MacDraw, MacWritc, MacProjccl, & MacPaint are ™ or 
Apple Computer. MacDraft is a ™ of Idd, Inc. JAZZ is a 
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easy to use, fully 


relational database . 


For $95. No kidding! 


POWER SOFTWARE COSTS A FOR- 
nine. That discovery is often a bitter 
pill for new computer users to swal¬ 
low. But once that pill goes down, 
its message heads straight to the 
brain and takes root there, From that 
point on, it is difficult to imagine 
tilings being any other way. Devel¬ 
opment time and resources are cost¬ 
ly, so software companies have to 


charge exorbitant prices to recoup 
their investment. This thought, so 
painful at first, becomes a way oflifc. 
Then inexpensive software is some¬ 
times viewed with skepticism and it’s 
easy to overlook a real bargain. 

interlace is an incredible Bargain, 
Developed by people originally in¬ 
volved with software development 
for the Lisa or similar projects at 
Xerox PARC and other Silicon Val¬ 
ley think tanks. Interlace is a database 
manager that is powerful and at die 
same time easy to use. It can manip¬ 
ulate numbers and text with most if 
not all of the functions normally 
found in industrial-strength spread¬ 
sheets; offers simple standard reports 
or complex custom reports; works 
with single or multiple files; and 
makes it easy to link information in 
one file with related data in another 


file. Interlace is good, it is true to the 
philosophy and operation of the 
Mac interface and it sells for $95. No 
joke—$95. 


DESIGNER DATABASE 

Interlace opens with a big, empty 
window called the DataBase Over¬ 
view. The Overview window dis¬ 
plays the files created or opened in 
each session, and is always there as a 
reference. This can be valuable when 
working with multiple files (up to 
15 files can be open at a time), 
because it is easy to get confused 
about where things are located. A 
Windows menu lists all the windows 
open at any time. Clicking on the 
name of a window brings it to the 
top of the^ pile. 

Creating a new file is as simple as 


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selecting NEW DATABASE FILE*.* 
from the File menu. Once the file is 
named and saved to disk, a small 
window appears in the Overview 
window with die name of die new 
file in the title bar. A blank space is 
provided for the first field, and is 
already selected. To build the file, 
simply type in die name of each field 
and press the return key* The file 
window grows to accommodate die 
number of fields* up to 254 fields 
per record. 

An X appears in the Close box in 
die file window’s ride bar. This 
means that the design must be saved 
before any data can be entered. 

KEEPING THE BOOKS 

As an example of a simple file, a 
small children’s bookstore wants to 


keep track of all the books it carries. 
The Book file needs to contain the 
following in formation: title, author, 
publisher, supplier {in the case of 
books that can be purchased from a 
local distributor as well as the pub¬ 
lisher)^ price, and discount {die dif¬ 
ference between what die bookstore 
pays and the retail price). Each of 
these pieces of data is a field. The 
Book file is created by typing each of 
these field names in the file window* 
Interlace fields can contain a vari¬ 
ety of information, including text, 
numbers, dates or times. The op¬ 
tions arc listed in the Describe menu* 
The default setting is text, because a 
text field can contain any type of 
data* The text setting is Fine for most 
of die fields in the Book database, 
but what if you want to search for ail 


the books with prices less than S10? 
If the price information is entered as 
text, the search is cumbersome, but if 
a field contains a number. Interlace 
searches for a particular value quickly 
and efficiently* That means the price 
and discount fields should be set as 
Number fields* 

By choosing DISPLAY FORMAT.,, 
from die Format menu, the price 
field can be assigned a dollar format 
and told to display two decimal 
places. Then, when you are entering 
data for a book with a price of 
$6.00, all you have to enter is die 
numeral 6, Interlace will format it 
automatically to display as a dollar 
amount. 

To make it easier for Interlace to 
be able to find a specific book, each 
record or complete listing must be 
unique, so one or more of the fields 
must be identified a*s key fields. Us¬ 
ing the bookstore example, there 
may be more than one book in stock 
with the same title, but there proba¬ 
bly won’t be two books with the 
same title and author, so each book 
record can be uniquely identified by 
making both Title and Author key 
fields. With Interlace, diis is done by 
selecting the field in question and 
choosing KEY FIELD from the De¬ 
scribe menu* The field label is now 
underlined in the file window, indi¬ 
cating that it is a key field. A file 
must have at least one key field* 

The order in which field names are 
listed in the file window is carried 
over to data entry, and is used to 
determine sort priorities* Field 
names can be moved up or down in 
die file window list simply by pick¬ 
ing them up and dropping them in a 
new spot. If a field name is moved 
directly between two key fields, it 
automatically becomes a key field 
and has sort priority over the field 
below it. 

ON THE RECORD 

Once the file is built and the 
design has been saved, the next step 
is to begin entering data* Double¬ 
clicking in the title bar of the file 
window brings the data entry win¬ 
dow to the screen with a blank 
record ready to be filled in. The field 
names appear as labels in the same 
order as they are listed in the file 


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Title 

Aulhor 

Publisher 

Price 

Discount 

AH Supplier 

OnHand 






T(l!i Apples and arongvv 

Author {Brown — 

jwi 1 son Smith * 

Price £495 
Discount [JOlT' 

elI*. 


Qelo 


Entry 


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A sample record in die 
Book file, with the Over¬ 
view window behind rL 
The title was formatted 
for boldface when the 
data entry window was de¬ 
signed. 


* Flit Edit Format 


Enter qualification lor the record!*) desired. 


Field to Search: 

_ 1 

Operator to Use: 

| Title 

a 


@ Equal 

Author 



O Not Equal 

Pub Its her 



O l*** 

Price 



O Or Equal 

Discount 



O (treater 

All Supplier 



O Creator Or Equal 




O starts UHlh 


§ 


O Include* 


{TnhccL) 

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Value to Find: ]£ 


Title - H Applet and Oranges* 


The Querybuilder dialog 
box. Searching for a re¬ 
cord Is as easy as clicking 
and typing in a value* 


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A sample table-style re¬ 
port, redesigned so en¬ 
tries list vertically rather 
than the default horizon¬ 
tal arrangement The in¬ 
set shows bow the report 
was designed. 


window, with an empty box beside 
each to hold the data. To enter the 
name of a hook, simply click on the 
field box next to Name and begin 
typing. Move from one field to die 
next by pressing eidter TAB or RE¬ 
TURN after each entry. The record is 
complete when all the fields are 
filled, but it can be entered into die 
database with any number of boxes 
empty, as long as at least one of the 
key fields contains data. The remain¬ 
ing fields can be filled in, or the 
record changed, at any time. 

In many databases it is difficult or 
impossible to change a file’s design. 
The position and size of the field 
boxes are set to default values by 
Interlace, but they can Ik* easily 
changed. Elements of Interlace files 
can be moved around, deleted or 
their contents altered at virtually any 
time, whether a file is brand new or 
already contains data. 

Selecting FORM LAYOUT from the 
Database menu gives you full con¬ 
trol over the look of die data entry 
form. The form is placed against a 
grid background and several new 
menus become available. In the 
Book file example, the Title and 
Author entries need to be larger than 
the price and discount, for example. 
In the form layout mode, the Tide 
entry box can he made larger, or die 
Price box smaller, simply by select¬ 
ing it and dragging the lower right 
hand corner until the box matches 
die desired dimensions. The field 
boxes can be picked up and moved 
to any position on the page. Hold¬ 
ing the SHIFT key down while select¬ 


ing several objects makes it possible 
to treat them as a single unit. 

Interlace also provides control 
over the font and style of labels and 
fields. For instance, all the titles in 
die Book file can be made to appear 
in bold type simply by clicking on 
the Title field box and choosing 
BOLD from the Style menu. 

When the form layout looks just 
right, selecting DATA ENTRY from 
the Layout menu returns the data 
entry window with all the cosmetic 
changes recorded. All necessary data 
is then entered for each book in 
stock. As a record is completed, ir 
can be entered in the file by selecting 
ENTER RECORD from the Database 
menu, or pressing comm an day. A 
new, blank record is brought on¬ 
screen by selecting NEW RECORD or 
pressing COMMAND-E. (Nearly all of 
Interfaces menu selections have a 
command key option.) If several 
records are going to be entered in 
one sitting, pressing the ENTER key 
on flic Mac keyboard saves a step. 
This enters the record, puts it away, 
and displays a blank record. 

To delete a record while the file is 
being built or at a later time, simply 
select DELETE RECORD from the Da¬ 
tabase menu, but use this option 
cautiously. One of the drawbacks of 
Interlace is chat there is no warning 
dialog box when a single record is 
deleted, nor can you undo DELETE. 
A record deleted accidentally (easy 
enough to do because DELETE RE¬ 
CORD lies just below NEW RECORD 
in the Database menu) will have to 
be retyped. This is a bit surprising. 


because in all other areas. Interlace is 
careful to prevent accidents. 

The number of records, or list¬ 
ings, a file can contain is limited only 
by disk space, but all the records in a 
single file, such as the Book file, 
must be on a single disk (or volume 
on a hard disk). Individual files with¬ 
in a multiple file database can spread 
across more than one disk, 

Tlie database can be browsed re¬ 
cord by record by selecting either 
FIRST, LAST, PRIOR or NEXT RECORD 
from the Search menu or pressing 
the appropriate command key com¬ 
bination. Some database programs 
display records in the order they 
were entered. Interlace automatically 
does a sort on the key fields and 
displays the records in ascending (A 
to Zor 1,2,3... ) order. In the Book 
file, the records will be displayed 
alphabetically by title. 

Using a very simple dialog box 
called Query build. Interlace can also 
search for a record on any field and 
according to a variety of logical 
operators. To find the record for a 
book called David and the Wizard 
click on TURF, in the list of fields 
presented in a Mini Finder-style win¬ 
dow, select EQUAL from the list of 
operators and type the full title. You 
could also find this book and similar 
titles by clicking the title, selecting 
INCLUDES or STARTS WITH, and typ¬ 
ing any part of the title. 

Press ENTER to accept a search 
qualification and OK to display the 
desired record. When the record is 
shown, the formula Interlace used to 
find it is displayed in a formula bar 
above the record, for example 
STARTS{Titk% David). The advan¬ 
tage in using Interlace is that this 
formula is built by pointing and 
clicking on a list of options, rather 
than requiring the user to know the 
program’s syntax for formulas. 

DISPLAYING DATA 

Interlace has a simple built-in re¬ 
port format called a table-style re¬ 
port. A new report is created from 
the File menu. A dialog box asks you 
to choose between a table report and 
a custom report you build yourself. 
Selecting the table-style report 
brings up a dialog box similar to the 
one used to transfer fonts and desk 


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accessories in Font IDA Mover. 

A list of all fields appears in a 
window on the left side of the box, 
with a blank window on the right* 
To include a Held in the report, 
select it and press die INCLUDE but¬ 
ton* Intniace automatically drops to 
the next field name in the list and 
you continue selecting the fields to 
be incorporated into the new report* 
Alternatively, you can have all the 
fields displayed in the report by 
clicking on the INCLUDE ALL but¬ 
ton* 

Next, use the Query bin Id dialog 
box to qualify' die records. The re¬ 
port can perform a search on the 
database and list any or all of the 
records, as specified in Querybuild* 
Save the report and a report window 
comes up on the screen* 

The report is initially displayed in 
design mode, with blank field boxes 
against a grid background* In this 
way, the size, shape, and position of 
the field boxes can be adjusted. The 


default display shows all the assigned 
fields in a row across the page, with 
labels above each field. The group¬ 
ing of boxes has a thick gray bar 
along the left: edge indicating diat it 
is a Repeating Collection. The Re¬ 
peating Collection is Interlaces way 
of indicating that a particular field or 
group of fields repeats for every 
record. Because of the design setup 
in Query build. Interlace assumes that 
each of the assigned fields will be 
displayed for every record. 

The fields can be moved into 
another design, such as a vertical 
grouping, by picking them up and 
dropping them in their new location. 
Doing this disturbs the Repeating 
Collection, so Interlace pulls the first 
record from die database and dis¬ 
plays data in the fields moved out of 
the Repeating Collection. This is not 
a time for panic, bur it is a bit 
confusing at first* Ignore the offend¬ 
ing data and finish placing ail the 
fields in the design you want. Then 


use the crosshair cursor to draw a 
large box around the entire collec¬ 
tion. Select REPEATING COLLEC¬ 
TION from the Describe menu. The 
fields are now surrounded by a gray 
box, and arc once again empty of 
data. 

As with the data entry window, 
the report design window allows 
you to nindily the font or style of 
any field or label You can make the 
labels in different sty les for variety or 
to set them apart, then save the new 
design. Choose DISPLAY from the 
Report menu and the report appears 
on-screen. The reports print out just 
as they appear on the screen, either 
on the I mage Writer or LaserWriter. 
Interlace can also place graphics into 
data entry or report forms. The 
flexibility of reporting opens up a 
wide range of possibilities, including 
forms generation and mail merge* 

Custom reports arc created from 
scratch on a blank page with a grid 
background* Each field is drawn and 
given a type such as text or number, 
then placed where it belongs on the 
grid. Unlike the table-style report, 
the field has no specific reference to a 
file or a field. This must be built by 
selecting a file from a list in a 
minifinder window, then using 
Querybuildcr to specify the field and 
search qualifications. For the report 
to display all of the records selected 
by the query, the group of fields 
must again be made a Repeating 
Collection, 

Sometimes, a report has to display 
information for sonic records but 
not all of them, as it does when the 
primary' supplier of a book is some¬ 
one other than the publisher. The 
fields in question can be formatted 
for Variable Height, and told not to 
display if there is no entry' for a 
particular record. The Variable 
Height option can also be used 
when a field needs to contain several 
lines of data* 

CAN YOU RELATE? 

Although building a single file 
database like the Book file is very 
easy with Interlace , the true strength 
of the program is revealed in its 
ability to link multiple files. Say that 
the children’s bookstore expands to 
carry a line of toys, and wants to 


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emboldened. Underlined 
fields are key fields. 


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keep track of all books, toys and total 
inventory, A Toy file can be built 
along the same lines as the Book file, 
and a third database built for Inven¬ 
tory. 

While looking through the book 
or toy file, it might be valuable to 
kno\y exactly how many copies arc 
on hand. With a non-relational data¬ 
base, you would have to open the 
Inventor)' file and do a search to find 
the record you wanted to see. A 
relational database, which is in itself 
a programming language, establishes 
active links between files. In many 
relational programs, the links arc 
complicated to set up and manipu¬ 
late, requiring a thorough knowl¬ 
edge of the program’s language 
structure. With Interlace , linking files 
is wondrously simple. 

To establish a link between the 
Book and Inventory files, both file 
windows must be showing on the 
DataBase Overview Window, but no 
documents should be open. If the 
Close box in the title bar of cither 
file is shaded, a document is open 
and must be closed before the design 
of either file can be changed. 

The link has to be established 
between two new fields at the time 
the fields arc created. Select the last 
field in the Book file window and 
press RETURN. This creates space for 
a new field name. The Interlace man¬ 
ual recommends that the linked field 
name should reflect the name or 
purpose of die linked file, so our 
example is OnHand, indicating the 
number of Books in stock. A similar 
fieldname, thcBook, is entered in the 
Inventor)' file window. The link be¬ 
tween the two fields is made simply 
by drawing a line from one field- 
name to the other, as in MacProject. 

In the case of the Book and Inven¬ 
tor)' files, the link is from one record, 
that of a single book, to one other 
record, its inventor)' counterpart. 
Once the link is drawn, use a choice 
in the Describe menu to tell Interlace 
that it is a single link to one record. 
Intnlacc can also establish a collec¬ 
tion of links from one record to 
many, for example a link from a list 
of suppliers to all the books they 
supplied, or from many records to 
many, depending on the nature of 
the link. The wav to determine die 


correct type of link is described very 
clearly in the Interlace manual. A 
similar link can be established be¬ 
tween the Inventor)' and Toy files, 
using fields OnHand and the Toy, 
for example. 

When any of the three files is 
displayed, the new linked field ap¬ 
pears, with field entry boxes diat 
match the key fields in the related 
file. In the Inventory record for the 
book David and the Wizard , the 
fields for the Book entry represent 
the title and author of the book, 
respectively. Enter these items in the 
correct fields. Then select SHOW 
LINKED RECORDS from the Data¬ 
base menu or type COMMAND-G and 
the related file in the Book file will 
be displayed. If the related file has 
not been opened yet. Interlace opens 
the file, finds the appropriate record, 
and displays it, all automatically. It 
would have been nice if the related 
record could be pulled up by double¬ 
clicking on the link, but you get 
accustomed to using COMMAND-G 
after a while. 

COUNT ME IN 

The case of generating linked files 
alone is enough to consider Interlace 
a bargain, and not just because of its 
price. The potential time savings is 
remarkable. But Interlace hasn’t fin¬ 
ished astonishing us yet. It also in¬ 
cludes a ftill range of spreadsheet- 
type logical, mathematical, and 
statistical functions (SUM, COUNT, 
MIN, AVERAGE, SIN, COS, TRUE, 
FALSE, etc.). These functions can be 
used to make Interlace a freeform 
spreadsheet, or to create complex 
and powerful reports. 

For example, die book and toy 
store could generate a custom report 
that acted as a point-of-sale receipt 
generator. The report would accept 
the name of each item sold, pull the 
price from the Book or Toy file, 
calculate the sale, compute sales tax, 
calculate a total, print a receipt, and 
update the inventory. 

Interlace can also port data in or 
out from theClipboard, as a text file, 
or in mail merge format. Text from 
die Clipboard or text file must be 
formatted in a specific manner that’s 
well outlined in the manual. 

Interlace is fully Sii'/rf/;rr-compati¬ 


ble. It requires a whopping 300K 
configuration to work properly but 
there is enough space left to work 
comfortably with another program 
that requires only 128K. 

LACING UP 

Although Intnlacc is very easy to 
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confusing at first, like building a 
custom report for the first time, or 
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The manual opens with a good tuto¬ 
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its structure is a bit unusual, with a 
section after the tutorial called De¬ 
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reference section. There is very litdc 
explanation on the use of the spread¬ 
sheet functions. The index is weak 
and it is often difficult to find the 
answer to a specific question, al¬ 
though there is an excellent context- 
sensirive on-screen help facility. 

All in all, Interlace is a special find. 
It is well designed and the execution 
is excellent. It is a relational database 
that can be used quickly and easily 
even by someone who has never 
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Need some problems 
solved? Some ideas? 
Someone to organize 
those thoughts? Maybe 
you need a Consultant 


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DON PACE 


POWER COMPUTING 


“THANKS, l REALLY NEEDED THAT!” 

Sometimes it's a splash of cold 
water, sometimes it’s a kick in the 
pants and sometimes it’s a new way 
of looking at a vexing problem. At 
one time or another, all of us have 
required that push, that help to get 
started. Now there’s a program that 
uses simple artificial intelligence (Al) 
techniques to help start the creative 
juices. odsiConsultant is a problem¬ 
solving program that can stimulate 
new ideas. It was designed to pro¬ 
voke creative as well as critical think¬ 


ing faculties, and after accomplishing 
those feats, it then helps refine the 
solutions to a problem so they can be 
easily and effectively presented to 
others. That’s a lot for any program 
to claim. Yet many people feel that 
Consultant does exactly what it 
claims to do. 

Another large segment of the user 
community says that while the pro¬ 
gram docs all that, that’s nothing 
beyond the way they ordinarily be¬ 
have. So why bother with a relatively 
expensive bit of software? If some 


inspiration is needed, a fill-in-the- 
blanks book will do just as well. 
These people will not get much from 
Consultant and should probably ig¬ 
nore it. 

Others will find it to be exactly 
what they need to focus on a prob¬ 
lem—the perfect kick in the pants 
they need. Some people even react 
better to things they perceive as 
advanced, high-tech or computer¬ 
ized. Subconsciously they fed that 
this “tiling,” this computerized high- 
tech “thing,” must know better. And 









ARE TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE? 


in some cases, Comultant does know 
better. Its low-level AI routines can 
focus your thoughts faster, and often 
better, than you can. 

In the end, whether Consultant will 
work for you comes down to your 
personality. Look carefully at your* 
self and at the program before com¬ 
mitting yourself to it. Do you often 
need that little push? Could your 
ideas stand some focus, some im¬ 
provement in aim? Or does that sort 
of help hinder and even offend you? 

CALLING IN THE CONSULTANT 

Most people tend to confront 
problems from a single direction. 
But using only one avenue—the ap¬ 
proach usually found most success¬ 
ful, comfortable, or obvious—it is 
easy to overlook a better (more ele¬ 
gant, more efficient, less expensive) 
solution. Consultant lets users ap¬ 
proach a problem from a number of 
vantage points and uncover unique 
and valuable insights. 

Consultant starts by asking users 
to narrow down the pertinent facts 
or evaluate preconceptions. That 
alone may clarify a poorly defined 
problem. Then its idea generating 
and decision-making aids arc used to 
expand or compress conceptual 
flights of fancy and provide some¬ 
times unexpected insights. 

Let’s see how Consultant could be 
used to hdp solve a particular prob¬ 
lem. Assume that you have just been 
assigned to head a computer graph¬ 
ics group in your company. The 
group has a recent history of prob¬ 
lems and low productivity. A lot of 
time and energy is being wasted, 
because under existing conditions 
staff' members can’t generate graph¬ 
ics efficiendy, communicate new 
ideas effectively or share graphic data 
easily widi one another. Your job is 
to straighten die mess out, and how 
you go about it is up to you. You 
need a solution to a very complex 
problem, and you need it fast. You 
turn to Consultant to help attack the 
problem. 

Consultant starts bv forcing the 
creation of an assignment list that 
lists your responsibilities. For exam¬ 
ple, you might enter that you estab¬ 
lish policies and procedures, super¬ 
vise graphic production, manage a 


Begin 


Register Personal Data 
Determine Mission 
identify Bssignments 
Prioritize Assignments 
Describe Assignment 
Choose Procedure 


Detect 


Describe Problem 
Gather Candidate Facts 
Assess Releuancy and Ifalidity 
Organize Facts 
Develop EHpianations 
Test Explanations 
identify Solution 


Disc oner 


State Hypothesis 
Gather Candidate Facts 
Assess Releuancy and Uelldlty 
Refine Hypothesis 
Design Experiment 
Conduct Experiment 
Interpret Euidence 
Develop Principle 


Create 


Gather Candidate Facts 
Determine Objectives 
Assess Relevancy and Validity 
Identify Obstacles 
Inventory Resources 
Generate Ideas 
Edit and Translate Ideas 
Make Decisions 
Test Decisions 


These are the menu* you’ll use first. Always start 
a work session at the Begin menu. Then use one 
of the next three menus to start solving your 
problem. 

team of 12 people and report to the 
general manager. 

When the assignment list is com¬ 
plete, Comultant reprints it and asks 
you to use its PRIOEUTIZ.ER decision¬ 
making aid to determine the best 
order to tackle your assignments. 
PRIOR TO ZER takes the list and pre¬ 
sents you with item-pairs from 
which you choose die item with the 
higher priority. Although some 
items may seem equally important. 


the forced-choice method helps clari¬ 
fy responsibilities and purs them in 
perspective. 

After completing the paired deri¬ 
sions, Consultant rearranges die 
items into a new “prioritized” list. 
Widi the assignments preferentially 
sorted, i fs time to dig into die main 
issue. 

The most important assignment 
should be worked on first. The pro¬ 
gram asks you to describe ft. In this 
case, you are to organize a computer 
graphics facility that will maintain an 
up-to-date computer graphics opera¬ 
tion and provide users with the abili¬ 
ty to share graphic images. 

You have now determined a prob¬ 
lem, situated it within the context of 
your responsibilities, and described 
it. This problem should be smaller 
and easier to work on. That may be 
enough of a kick for you to simply 
go on and solve the problem your¬ 
self. Once die smaller problem is 
solved, go back to the Comultant to 
get the next piece of the overall 
problem. Keep doing that until die 
entire problem is solved. 

But what if the smaller problem is 
still too complex, too hard to get a 
handle on? Just move to Comultanfs 
next level of problem-solving assis¬ 
tance, Youll have to choose a proce¬ 
dure from Consultants three op¬ 
tions. 

The DETECT option asks you to 
look back and describe the problem 
by gathering relevant facts, assessing 
them and organizing them. Based on 
a review of that assessment, you can 
develop and test explanations and 
identify plausible solutions. 

A second approach, DISCOVER, 
uses the scientific method to help 
uncover the basic principles behind a 
hypothetical problem solution. After 
evaluating your problem, you pose a 
hypothesis. Comultant then instructs 
you to compile evidence and design 
and conduct an experiment to test 
your initial premise. 

The third option, CREATE, looks 
toward the future. YouTl be asked to 
state the problem in terms of how it 
relates to your objectives, recognize 
the resources you have available and, 
based on these determinations, gen¬ 
erate, edit and test your decisions. 

Your choice of procedure should 


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be based as much on your personal¬ 
ity as anything else. Do you hate 
experiments, or is research a weak 
point? If that’s so, then CREATE will 
probably be your preferred option. 
Here’s how create works. 

The first step is to gather the 
pertinent facts (Consultant calls them 
Candidate Facts). Then determine 
your objective(s); what do you want 
to happen? Your role in the solution 
is often suggested by the data you 
just collected. 

Next, Consultant suggests using 
die RATER decision-making aid to 
assess the relevancy and validity of 
your facts. RATER wants two inde¬ 
pendent criteria (for example, “use¬ 
fulness” and “economy"). Then it 
asks you to rate each item on your 
list of facts on a 1 to 10 scale relative 
to these criteria. Many items arc 
often closely clustered at the top of 
the hst. However, Consultant takes 
small rating variations into account 
and reorders the list. The list can be 
considered a plan of action. Work 
down it to solve this particular por¬ 
tion of the problem. But if you’ve 
come this far, let Comultant take you 
a bit further. 

The next step is to identify the 
obstacles that must be overcome be¬ 
fore you can reach your objective. 

There arc often many objections 
to overcome when presenting an 
ambitious idea—in this case, they 
might include a boss 5 inability to 
appreciate the role of the computer 
or an inability to work with its 
limitations, an unwillingness to in¬ 
vest in the idea, or whatever. Objec¬ 
tions reflect valid concerns that must 
be taken into account before at¬ 
tempting to sell an idea. 

Take the time to inventory your 
resources. Consultant helps by re¬ 
printing the obstacle list and asking 
sc What resources can be employed to 
overcome obstacles and reach the 
stated objectives?” This list will make 
more solutions obvious or even inev¬ 
itable. 

OTHER PROBLEMS, OTHER SOLUTIONS 

Perhaps the most crucial aspect of 
critical thinking is brainstorming, 
generating many ideas very quickly 
and nonjudgmentally. At this point 
it may be time to turn to Consul- 


Sell 


Designate Prospect 
Set Goals 
Prospect's Needs 
Select Rids 
Get Appointment 


Arouse Interest 
Describe Conditions 
Name Plan 
Describe Objectives 
Enplaln Features 
Explain Costs 
Handle Objections 
Cause Acceptance 

Evaluate Presentation 
Follom-up 


Plan 


Identify Goals 
Establish Objectives 
Determine Units 
Quantify Objectives 
Assign Time Limits 


Identify Tasks 
Identify Interdependencies 
Assign People 
identify Milestones 


List Resources 
Quantify Resources 
Determine Costs 
Determine Benefits 
Test Plan 


Work 


Monitor Plan 
Modify Plan 
Measure Results 
Measure $ 


Plan Netit Session 
Evaluate Performance 
Contract Improvement 


Scratchpad I 
Scratchpad 2 
Scratchpad 3 
Scratchpad 4 


0oc« • solution has bean identified, use these 
menus to prepare the presentations and propos¬ 
als you'll need to sell your solution to others. 


tanfs BRA1NSTORMER feature, 
which can take the place of a whole 
group of people. After entering a 
“stimulus question 5 ’ (“How is this 
idea fiscally reasonable?”), you arc 
instructed to suspend judgment and 
input anything that comes to mind. 
That means coming back to the 
problem at any time to continue the 
process or letting ideas flood all at 
once. 

Consultant offers other tools to 
help the flow of ideas. QUESTIONER 
poses questions based on data you 
have input, the COMBINER forces 
you to relate your facts to each other 
(often generating new ideas), and 
the SCENARIO tool helps you create 
simple models. 

The ideas you generate are most 
valuable when they lead to a specific 
action. Consultant will often reprint 
the original mission you entered 
when you started the work session. 
It then ask s you to rephrase your 
intentions as “action terms.” All 
ideas generated should then be 
looked at in light of the action terms. 
This will generate new ideas, and 
maybe even more solutions. 

USING THE SOLUTION 

Solutions are simply plans of ac¬ 
tion until they arc implemented. 
Consultant provides a plethora of 
tools to help you seU and implement 
your solution. 

The options on the Plan menu ask 
you to identify goals and specify 
objectives by quantifying goals and 
giving them a time limitation. You 
should also tell the program what 
you think arc your tasks (and their 
interdependencies), resources, prob¬ 
able costs and hoped-for benefits. 

The interdependency question is 
often particularly instructive. Comul¬ 
tant has you take the list of tasks 
and, using the RELATOR decision¬ 
making aid, determine their relation¬ 
ships. RELATOR presents the tasks as 
item-pairs and asks you to specify if 
an item is dependent on another. 
After going through all the item- 
pairs Consultant reorders the list (A, 
B, C,...) and displays the results—[A 
depends on: C ]; [B depends on: 
A];.,.[G depends on: D, B], and so 
on. Through the use of these tools it 
is possible to construct a clear plan 


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* flic Edit Begin Detect Discover Create Plan Sett LUork 


Consultant 


DECISION MAKING AIDStOI 


IDEA GENERATION AIDS 


Prlnritizer. 


Rrainstormer 


Grader 


Questioner 


Combiner 


Evaluater 


Scenario 


Relator 


Tutor 


Categori2er 


Coach 





1 1 

mm 

r 



Die work screen Is ringed with icons. That lets you access any tool at any time. 


of action relating to the original 
objective. Now’s the time to devise a 
way to sell the plan. 

Proceed to the Sell menu. First, 
you’ll be asked to specify the people 
to whom the plan will be presented, 
and identify as much as possible 
their needs, goals, and so on. You 
can call on the SCENARIO decision¬ 
making aid for help. SCENARIO asks 
you to input a Title and Tone (your 
point of view). Then it asks you to 
specify the Players and their Roles 
and any props necessary' to the story'. 
Finally, it suggests a scenario. If this 
scenario doesn’t seem to work, go 
back and change the Tone to reflect 
your boss’ point of view and retell 
the story'. This may help you realize 
the pressures the bosses are operat¬ 
ing under; the deadlines that must 
be met and standards that must be 
upheld. With this knowledge, you 


may be able to present the idea more 
convincingly. 

Consultant suggests appropriate 
graphic aids (perhaps some MacPro- 
ject flowcharts, examples of Mac 
graphics to demonstrate the stylistic 
diversity' available with a Macintosh, 
etc.), interest generating devices (a 
Macintosh slide show?), relevant 
background material, and other psy¬ 
chological stimuli. 

Finally, Consultant can print a re¬ 
port containing all the material gen¬ 
erated in the work session. Armed 
with this report, users can prepare 
cftcctivc presentations and 
proposals. 

WHY BOTHER? 

Creative problem solving is not a 
mere phenomenon where the inscru¬ 
table minds of the exceptional indi¬ 
viduals work in random ways. Every'- 


CONSULTANT: REPORT CARD 

Overall Rating: •** 


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Printed Documentation: *#** 

On-Screen Help: **** 

Performance: — 

Support: « 

Consumer Value: •• 

Comments: Incorporates simple 
A1 techniques to stimulate and sup¬ 
port critical thinking. 

Best Feature: Provides easy-to- 


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one is capable of creative thinking. 
CofMtltnnfs idea generation aids arc 
list creation and manipulation tech¬ 
niques designed to help all problem 
solvers use their creative potential. 

Critical thoughts compliment cre¬ 
ative ideation. It is important to 
suspend your critical faculties in gen¬ 
erating ideas, and it is eventually 
necessary to choose wisely from 
among die possibilities, coalescing 
simple ruminations into reality. Al¬ 
though critical thinking is a skill we 
all exercise, it can be refined, Consul¬ 
tant's decision-making aids reflect 
some very useful sorting algorithms 
that make it easier to understand and 
prioritize ideas, 

PROGRAMMATIC DETAILS 

Consultant makes excellent use of 
the Macintosh interface. Context- 
sensitive on-scrcen help is always 
available. These help screens are 
called either Tutors or Coaches, de¬ 
pending both on where you are in 
the program and w hat sort of help 
you require. On-screen icons are 
used to access thcm.Thc documenta¬ 
tion is clear, and learning the pro¬ 
gram is a speedy, painless process. 

Report generation is adequate, 
but the reports would be more inter¬ 
esting if they could use graphics and 
fonts other than their default fonts. 
Some of the format, which isn’t user 
definable, is inappropriate. For ex¬ 
ample, it would be much more use¬ 
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tool displayed as a flowchart rather 
than as the bracketed list supplied. 

Consultant docs offer four 
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enter (via the keyboard or by cutting 
and pasting) lists, which can then be 
worked on using the various idea 
generation and decision-making aids. 

Unlike most programs that non- 
judgmentally catalogue information, 
Consultant encourages the user to 
hone in on specifics. With it users 
can confront the trees without losing 
sight of the forest. 

Problem solving should not be a 
chore. It should exercise minds and 
challenge abilities. Consultant will 
not answer your questions. But it 
can inspire you to make the most of 
your problem-solving capabilities,^ 


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THE JAPANESE J.OVE THE MACIN- 
tosh. Given the Jove affair that West¬ 
erners have developed in recent years 
with sushi and samurai movies, that 
seems a fair exchange. The only 
problem is, the Japanese aren’t buy¬ 
ing Macs—not in any great num¬ 
bers, at least. 

The reason is the language. Sim¬ 
ply pur, the Japanese talk Japanese 
fo y and the Mac doesn’t. Or at least it 

’ didn’t until quite recently, A Japa¬ 

nese company called ErgoSoft is try- 
Howard ing to change that and come to 

Apple’s rescue in the Land of die 
Rising Sun. Their products tell die 

KatZ rale of a technological revolution. 


Until 6 years ago, word process¬ 
ing was an unknown concept in 
Japan. Even the idea of a Japanese 
typewriter was unknown. The rea¬ 
son is the complexity of the Japanese 
language. It is only with the advent 
of the microprocessor and recent 
advances in the software sciences 
that the Japanese have become able, 
on a personal basis, to access their 
own language in any sort of auto¬ 
mated form. The effect this is having 
in Japan is revolutionary, and any 
micros that can’t handle the lan¬ 
guage are out of die running. For a 
long while, that’s where the Mac 
stood—out of the running. 

Enter ErgoSoft. The company of* 
fers two products that allow the 
Japanese to use their own language 
in conversing with the Mac. This is a 
first for Macintosh, and a necessity if 
the Mac is to survive in the tough 
Japanese marketplace. One of the 
two products, EjfWord y is a word 
processor that bears a resemblance to 
MacWritc. The other, EffBndg€ } ex¬ 
tends the Japanese text-entry capabil¬ 
ities of EgWord to major applica¬ 
tions such as MacPaint^ MacDraWy 
and the entire Microsoft software 
family. The names of the products, 
by die way, sound much better in 
the original Japanese, where they are 
pronounced more like “EzWord” 
and “EzBridgc”; their radicr curious 
rendering in English is an unfortu¬ 
nate consequence of transliteration. 
So whats the big deal about a 
Japanese Word or MacWritc? Japa¬ 
nese has the world’s most complex 
writing system, and it takes far more 
than your normal, run-of-the-mill 
word processor to master its convo¬ 
luted structure. In fact, it takes a 
word processor with a high degree 
of smarts, one that’s very nearly 
artificially intelligent. 

What makes Japanese so difficult? 
For one tiling, there arc all those 
ideographs. Called kanji, or “Chi¬ 
nese characters,” close to 2,000 are 
formally taught in the Japanese edu¬ 
cational system, and you might en¬ 
counter up to 3,000 or so in a 
morning newspaper. If that weren’t 
bad enough, most of these icon-1 ike 


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The desktop. A small (5K1 
kata k an a font allows lim¬ 
ited Japanese entry out¬ 
side of EgWord , Things 
somehow look the same 
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the “Skisifteinu" and 
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tosh Book, showing all 
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dally use. Colors indicate 
hiragana in yellow, Aafa- 
kana in green and kanfi in 
red. 

The small “Input Meth¬ 
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input is converted to hira* 
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Chapter 5 Word Processing 

... A major challenge for word-processing pr 
ogram developers has been to give you on paper 
exactly what you see on the screen — not an 
easy task. With traditional word processing, 
you could rarely be sure exactly where new pag 
es of text began, much less see italics or hea 
dlines on the screen. 

Macintosh has changed all that. At last, ah 
at you see really is what you get. 

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symbols have multiple pronuncia¬ 
tions, or readings. Readings deter¬ 
mine meanings, and how a character 
or group of characters is pronounced 
is subject to a complex set of rules 
that make the internal workings of 
the Mac’s ROM look like child’s play 
by comparison. 

There arc only a limited number 
ofreadings that are used when char¬ 
acters are combined to form new 
words, and consequently there arc 
many more homonyms in Japanese 
than there are in English. Hom¬ 
onyms, of course, arc what you get 
when different words have the same 
pronunciation. 

And there’s more. In addition to 
the kanji character set, two other 
writing systems are in daily use as 
well. These two character sets, called 
hiragana and katakana separately, 
and kana collectively, employ an ad¬ 
ditional hundred-odd symbols that 
serve primarily as a phonetic alpha¬ 
bet, much as do the letters in our 
own English alphabet. With the 
kana, in other words, you can write 
what the kanji sound like. 

The Japanese writing system uses 
a mixture of all three scripts in a 
tremendously complicated orthogra¬ 
phy (die art of writing words with 
the proper symbols) that is both a 
source of pride to the Japanese and 
die bane of Western students of the 
language. The rules of usage are so 
difficult to learn that it takes average 
Japanese students two to three years 
longer than their Western counter¬ 
parts to master dicir own language. 

The first problem that causes Japa¬ 
nese word-processor designers to go 
prematurely gray is this: With up to 
3,000 characters and dirce writing 
scripts in daily use, how do you 
input text? One obvious solution is 
to build a bigger keyboard. And 
we’re talking big here. What die 
Japanese—happily—have elected to 
do is to retain the traditional 
QWERTY keyboard—traditional at 
least in the West and adopted as a 
standard by most Japanese manufac¬ 
turers—and to combine savvy soft¬ 
ware and raw computing ability to 
allow users to input kanji without 
really doing so. 

ErgoSoft has adopted this ap¬ 
proach and it works well. The basic 


idea is that either kana or die English 
alphabet can be used to enter the 
phonetic representation of the text— 
to enter what the text sounds like . On 
command, the word processing soft¬ 
ware then consults a dictionary of 
kana-to-kanji translations and re¬ 
places the entered phonetic script on 
the screen with a “best guess” as to 
what kanji die user intended to use. 

The best-guessing algorithm is 
complicated by the fact that one 
group of kana can represent many 
different kanji—the homonym prob¬ 


lem discussed above. The secret of 
the software lies in how that best 
guess is derived, and this involves 
frequency tables of the Japanese lan¬ 
guage, tiie rules of Japanese gram¬ 
mar, and a knowledge of the context 
of what is being translated. Depend¬ 
ing on the sophistication of the 
software, this best guess is generally, 
but not always, the one the user 
intended, and the user has to be able 
to easily modify the choices that the 
machine has made. 

EgWord shines in this respect. The 


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lookup time is fast, and point-and- 
dick makes changing kanji as easy as 
changing your mind. In fact, the 
company claims the fastest and most 
accurate kana-to-kanji conversions in 
the industry* 

Eg Word's conversion software 
swings into effect on command 
{press the ENTER key) or when the 
user types a period signaling 

the end of a sentence. The program 
can digest up to 500 kana at a time 
in producing a kanji conversion, and 
the company claims this is an indus¬ 
try-best as well If you like the con¬ 
version, fine—otherwise press the 
ENTER key again and up pops a small 
window showing all the possible 
kanji candidates for the word under 
consideration* And there can be doz¬ 
ens, with more unlikely candidates 
appearing in a second window be¬ 
hind the first* Point with the mouse 
or cycle through the list with the 
ENTER key to select a new homonym 
and then hit RETURN to replace the 
selected text and go on to the next 
w r ord. During the editing session, 
the EgWord dictionary disk resides 


in the external drive, giving the pro¬ 
gram fast access to over 38,000 
character and word entries. 

The visual characteristics of the 
Japanese language also push the ca¬ 
pabilities of most micros, but the 
Mac is nothing if not a superb 
graphics machine and is easily up to 
the challenge* Kanji arc written in a 
series of strokes and can become 
visually quite complex, requiring a 
fair degree of screen resolution so 
that the finer details of the characters 
arc not lost. ErgoSoft draws its kanji 
in a I6-by-16 pixel matrix, which 
provides a pleasing visual screen ap¬ 
pearance* 

A 24-by-24 pixel font allows even 
finer reproduction on the Image- 
Wrirer. As you might imagine, these 
two fonts take a lot of room on 
disk—over 350K! The screen font is 
loaded from a fonts disk at the start 
of a session and resides in memory 
thereafter. The size of the fonts files 
is one of the reasons that Eg Word 
requires a 512K Mac and two drives. 
Canon, which distributes Apple 
products in Japan, also offers a 



The conversion process in 
action* The hiragana entry 
"kadai” has just been 
converted to the two se¬ 
lected kanji shown* In this 
case the software has 
made the right choice, but 
we can look at other syn¬ 
onyms in the window at 
the lower-left by pressing 
Dfitfr, cycle through these 
choices and change our 
mind if desired* 


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A Japanese "Save” dialog* 
Look vaguely familiar? 
The cancel button reads 
"Kyansem” in Japanese, 
and the two righthand 
buttons read “Ijekkuto" 
and "Doraibu," respec¬ 
tively. 


“DynaMac”—a 512K Mac with the 
Japanese fonts in ROM. 

EgWord can draw over 3,000 
kanji, kana and special symbols. The 
ASCII standard, which utilizes seven 
bits out of an eight-bit byte, runs out 
of code numbers at 128* The Japa¬ 
nese have adopted a two-byte num¬ 
bering scheme, promoted by the 
Japanese Institute of Standards and 
adopted by all Japanese manufactur¬ 
ers. The most frequently encoun¬ 
tered 3,300 symbols are known as 
the JIS Level One character set. The 
remaining characters are quite rare 
by comparison and arc known as JIS 
Level Two* Eg Word allows full ac¬ 
cess to the JIS Level One set, and 
Level Two support is promised 
down the road. 

All in all, EgWord is an impressive 
product that pushes the capabilities 
of die Mac to address an issue that 
involves over 100 million people* It’s 
unlikely diat ErgoSoft’s offerings 
will find a large market in North 
America. In Japan, however, they 
just might enable the Mac to succeed 
against domestic competition. Eg 


EGWORD: 
REPORT CARD 

Overall Rating. •••• 


Follows Mac Interface: ••• 

Printed Documentation: •••*• 

On-Screen Help: NONE 

Performance: ••••• 

Support: ••• 

Consumer Value: •••• 


Comments: Japanese word pro¬ 
cessing, allowing full text-entry ac¬ 
cess to all written components of 
the language. 

Best Feature: Speed and ease of 
use in an extremely complex lan¬ 
guage environment* 

Worst Feature: Some confusing, 
non-standard use of Mac Interface 
(e*g.. kana are automatically "se¬ 
lected” as entered prior to conver¬ 
sion). 

List Price: $300 (at current ex¬ 
change rates). 

Published by ErgoSoft* Japan* 
Distributed in North America by 
Counterpoint. PO Box 1685, Cam¬ 
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Penguin 

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Silicon Beach Software 

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Sir-Tech 

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BART GOLDMAN 


DESKTOP PUBLISHING 



Get Set, Get Ready — 


Set — Go! Version 2.0! 


EARLY IN 1985, THREE MACINTOSH 
programs created a new genre of 
microcomputer applications—desk¬ 
top publishing. The concept had 
been tried on other computers with 
only limited success (Rroderbund’s 
Apple II and Commodore 64 pro¬ 
gram The Print Shop gave users limit¬ 
ed abilities to mix graphics and text), 
but thanks to the Mac's superb reso¬ 
lution and ability to integrate words 
and text created with different appli¬ 
cations, desktop publishing became 
the “hop 1 genre in the microcomput¬ 
er industry. 

MocPtibUsher from Boston Soft¬ 
ware, PageMaker by Aldus Corpora¬ 
tion and Manhattan Graphics 1 Rea - 
dySetGo provide users with the basic 
functions of typesetting and page 
layout, die cornerstones of graphic 
arts. With each of these applications, 
a single person at a computer can 
construct a professional-looking lay¬ 
out with text (from a word processor 


such as MaeWrite or Microsoft 
Word) and pictures (from MacPaint 
and others) as well as decorative 
elements like black and gray blocks, 
lines (called “rules’ 1 in publishing 
parlance) and borders. Suddenly, mi¬ 
crocomputers—and the Macintosh 
in particular—could be valuable 
tools for assembling advertising and 
promotional materials, books, news¬ 
letters and magazines, 

ON THE MARK 

ReadySetGo was the first desktop 
publishing program to come from a 
graphic arts company which recog¬ 
nized the Mac’s potential early on, 
Manhattan Graphics was looking for 
an inexpensive way for customers to 
better use its own commercial type¬ 
setting service. Instead of just mim- 
micking the “front end” of a typeset¬ 
ting system—the computer-based 
text-entry portion —ReadySetGoS au¬ 
thors made an effort to duplicate the 
functions of die layout artist’s draft¬ 
ing table. 

At the heart of ReadySetGo is its 
ability to “flow” or “pour” text onto 
a page in multiple columns of vari- 


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ON YOUR MACS! 



ReadySetGo's main screen. Element blocks are created by selecting the block type from the Create 
menu. Note the Picture, Text and Solid blocks on the screen. 


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Graphics blocks can be both resized and crapped. The face in the Picture block has been cropped to 
show only one eye. 


gus widths and lengths. Visuals can 
be mixed with this text and the 
entire layout can be continually 
changed according to the user’s 
whims. One column can be made 
wider or shorter, a picture may be 
moved from the top to the bottom 
of the page, a box can be drawn 
around the text to highlight it, shad¬ 
ed areas can be dropped behind a 
picture or text to create a more 
attractive treatment, graphics can be 
resized, text edited and “spec’d” 
(fonts and styles specified) and so 
on. 

The first version of ReadySetGo 
accommodated only a single layout 
page and required that text and 
pictures be brought into the pro¬ 
gram via the Clipboard or, in the 
case of text, be entered directly from 
the keyboard. A new edition of the 
program, version 2.0, is now avail¬ 
able that greatly expands its capacity 
and capability. Multiple page layouts 
can now be created, and text can be 
brought in from word processing 
files. 

In addition to greater flexibility, 
ReadySetGo can handle a large num¬ 
ber of the individual pans of a 
publication. Up to 32 pages can be 
stored in a single disk file, and each 
page can contain up to 100 blocks {a 
block can contain a picture, text or 
graphic element), or up to 1000 
total for the entire publication. 

Blocks that contain text are limit¬ 
ed to 30K, that is 30,000 characters 
including spaces and numbers. So 
the practical limit of one long piece 
of text is about 5000 words or the 
equivalent of 20 manuscript pages. 
Longer files will require division 
using the cut-and-paste features of a 
word processor. 

SETTING UP SHOP 

ReadySetGo is supplied on a single, 
unprotected disk, making backup 
copies and installation on a hard disk 
both possible and simple. When the 
program is ready, a grid of half-inch 
squares—the electronic equivalent of 
graph paper—appears on the screen, 
and the page number is identified by 
large outlined numbers in eacli cor¬ 
ner. Each new RSG file starts this 
way. To add pages, just pull down 
the Page item off die menu bar and 


select ADD A PAGE. Ifs a good idea 
to determine, or at least estimate, 
how many pages you’ll need at the 
start. 

There are some significant differ¬ 
ences between the way RSG works 
and what most people know as the 
“standard** Macintosh user interface. 
For instance, while the screen repre¬ 
sents only one portion of a larger 
sheet (letter, legal size, etc.), there 


are no scroll bars to move the sheet 
within the screen window. Instead, 
“Show Page” under the “Special” 
menu brings up a mini-page and a 
movable frame that corresponds to 
the size of the screen. Users move 
around the RSG page by reposition¬ 
ing this frame. 

The areas of the page that will 
contain text, pictures, graphic ele¬ 
ments, boxes and rules are simply 


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labeled TEXT, PICTURE, SOLID and 
FRAME blocks. (A fifth type, the 
TEXT LINK black, is used to continue 
text from one column to another. 
More on this later.) 

A block begins life on the page as 
a one-inch square box. At first, mov¬ 
ing and resizing blocks is frustrating, 
since they don't behave the way 
conventional Macintosh windows 
do. A block can only be moved by 
placing the tip of the cursor arrow 
just underneath its top border; resiz¬ 
ing happens when the lower right- 
hand comer of a block is touched 
just inside the block border. Unfor¬ 
tunately, there are no visual indica¬ 
tions that you're ready to drag or 
size the block, or even to indicate 
that you 7 rc touching it in the correct 
place. After a few tries, the trkk 
comes naturally, yet this inconsisten¬ 
cy remains annoying. 

The MODIFY item underneath the 
Block menu comes to the rescue 
when precision in size or position is 
required. By entering measurements 
in indies into slots in a dialog box, 
fine-tuning for accuracy is possible. 

As with other desktop publishing 
programs, work is simplified if you 
come to the layout session with 

TIPS 

The desktop publishing programs 
available for the Macintosh repre¬ 
sent the beginning of a true revolu¬ 
tion. For once, the power required 
to produce a professional-looking 
publication is available to anyone 
with (at most) the price of a new 
Toyota, This not only offers enor¬ 
mous entrepreneurial opportuni¬ 
ties, but will improve the way that 
we communicate with each other 
on a daily basis. Very simply put ( 
these publishing systems make in¬ 
formation easier to convey. 

Making page layouts with this 
new software can be simple, or it 
can be extraordinarily frustrating. 
When using any desktop publishing 
program, here are a few tips to 
make things easier: 

• While each of these programs 
offer text-editing capabilities, do 
your editing on a word processor. 
Not only is it faster and simpler, but 
the layouts won't require constant 
adjustment if you use text already 


some concrete ideas about where 
things will appear on each page. The 
best idea is also the oldest: Make a 
“dummy” page—a sketch or sche¬ 
matic of how the page will look— 
before you start. Then, by placing 
the appropriate number of blocks of 
the proper size on the page, your 
work can proceed more easily. 

View an electronic version of the 
dummy page by selecting SHOW 
PAGE. Each clement is represented 
symbolically. Pictures, for instance, 
are differentiated from text by 
crossed lines that occupy picture 
blocks. Odicr options, DISPLAY 
PAGE and DISPLAY FACING PAGES, 
give a true version of the page in 
reduction, including miniature {and 
unreadable) text and graphics. 

LET THE QUIPS FALL 
WHERE THEY MAY 

It's possible to position and size a 
text block that would fill a single 
RSG page, but that would defeat the 
purpose. More than likely, youll 
want to create several columns, per¬ 
haps of different widths. After creat¬ 
ing die first text block, where the 
story or text begins, every other 
block in which die story will contin¬ 


ue should be created as a “text link” 
block. Each such block refers directly 
to the first block and works in con¬ 
junction with it. 

Flowing or pouring in text begins 
by touching die first text block (to 
make it an active window) and se¬ 
lecting a MacWrite or Word docu¬ 
ment using the GET TEXT command 
under the File menu. RSG only 
works with ASCII text files, so when 
die dialog box appears, it shows the 
word processing files that have been 
saved using the “Text Only” option. 
Formatted MacWrite or Word docu¬ 
ments don't register as being avail¬ 
able. 

The text quickly appears in the 
proper width within the active text 
block and, if there arc odicr text link 
blocks on the page and the story is 
long enough, continues in those as 
well. 

Since RSG uses unformatted text 
files, type styles—different fonts, 
boldface, italics—must be edited 
into the text in the same manner that 
these selections are made in Mac* 
Write . This is accomplished by high¬ 
lighting text, then selecting font, 
sole and size from the appropriate 
menus at the top of the screen. 


FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHERS 


in its finished form while creating a 
page. Generate galleys—printed 
versions of the text in the same 
column width youll be using—to 
proofread and measure text, 

• Plan ahead. Gather all the nec¬ 
essary text and pictures before go¬ 
ing into a layout session. By assem¬ 
bling all of these elements 
beforehand, you can experiment 
more with the layout itself without 
the need to pull text files and pic¬ 
tures from disks one at a time. 
Since most of these publishing pro¬ 
grams use lots of disk space, cre¬ 
ate a single floppy disk (or folder on 
your hard disk} for the text and 
pictures you'll need, 

• Use dummy pages. Even 
though these are powerful pro¬ 
grams, few of them allow you to 
visually plan'your page. ( Ready* 
SetGo comes closest, though.) A 
dummy, especially for a multiple- 
page publication, can save hours of 
layout. When translating the dum¬ 


my to the computer screen, place 
photographs (or boxes that repre¬ 
sent them), rules and other graphic 
elements first. Then flow the text 
onto the page. This will save much 
of the constant readjustment that is 
otherwise required. 

• Study other people’s layouts. 
When reading a book or magazine, 
notice the way that pages are set 
up* where photos are placed, how 
graphs are displayed, when rules 
and other elements are used, and 
other style points. Don't be 
ashamed of limited artistic talent. 
Sometimes a little creative “borrow¬ 
ing" can spark a layout. 

* Even though it's been said a 
million times before, back up your 
work . Its agonizing to lose the word 
processing file that you've been 
working on for an hour or so, but 
downright depressing to lose a 
newsletter layout that you've had on 
your screen for the better part of 
two days. 


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ON YOUR MACS! 


{Some of the standard Mac Write 
shortcuts, such as COMMAND-R for 
boldface, will also work.) Centering 
and justification is handled this way, 
too. 

If you want to adjust the text in 
each of two or more blocks, they can 
be resized, shortened to eliminate 
unwanted single lines at the bottom 
or top of a column (called “widows" 
and “orphans" in printers' jargon). 


or expanded to extend the number of 
lines in a single block. When any 
blocks are resized for this reason, the 
text in them doesn't automatically 
change. 

Under the menu item named 
Block are two commands, reflow 
and VACUUM, which do exactly what 
they sound like. Reflow pours the 
text into all of the blocks once again, 
readjusting lor the new block sizes. 


Vacuum sucks all of the text back 
into die first text block so that text 
link blocks can be changed or new 
ones added. 

PICTURE THIS 

Narurally, a publication requires 
graphic elements other than typog¬ 
raphy and rules. ReadySetGo uses the 
Scrapbook to transfer MacPaint and 
other bit-mapped images (such as 
those from die Thunderscan scan¬ 
ning digitizer and Koala’s MaeVi- 
sion video digitizer) to a page lay¬ 
out. 

Once a conventional cut-and-paste 
is made from the Scrapbook—in this 
case into a specific active picture 
block, rather dian the document as a 
whole—pictures can be cropped and 
scaled, reduced or enlarged. Crop¬ 
ping is as simple as just resizing the 
picture block, dragging the bottom 
left comer of die block. Of course, if 
you resize the block larger than the 
original, the page displays only 
white space. 

Reposition a picture within the 
block by clicking the mouse button 
while pointing to any of eight re¬ 
gions around its center. Clicking on 
the left topmost region of die block 
will, then, shift the picture up and to 
the left. 

Scaling a picture can only be done 
through the “Modify" dialog box 
found under the Block menu. Im¬ 
ages can be squashed or stretched by 
varying the scale horizontally or ver¬ 
tically, specifying each by a number 
typed into the box. The beauty of 
being able to reduce pictures, natu¬ 
rally, is diat a far better resolution is 
achieved. Macintosh screen pic¬ 
tures—including Thunderscan and 
Mac Vision images—have a resolu¬ 
tion of 72 dots per inch. Results are 
more impressive if an image is re¬ 
duced to less dian 100% of its size, 
particularly when printing with a 
LaserWriter. While the effect still 
can’t match the quality of traditional 
halftoning, it looks very rich and 
derailed. 

When working with MacPaint 
documents within RSG t it’s often 
easier to use a desk accessory like 
MacroMind’s Art Grabber (pub¬ 
lished by Hayden) than to rely on 
the Scrapbook. Art Grabber can 
open a MacPaint document while in 



Hayden's drt Grabber desk accessory is a must for pulling graphics elements directly out of 
MacPaint flies and pasting them into Graphic blocks in ReadySetGo. Otherwise, graphics are 
brought in through the Scrapbook. 



The Special menu Includes commands for previewing a hill page and facing pages, toggling the 
registration grid, and assigning foreground-background prioritizations to blocks. 


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The Solid Block dialog box appears when a new block is created or an exiting block Is specified. The 
four gray tone values cannot be edited, but the block can be placed with extreme precision on the 
page. 


any other program (including RSG) 
and cut largcr-thamscrecn-sizcd por¬ 
tions of it to the Clipboard. 

The limitation of using only bit¬ 
mapped images is a serious one, but 
there are ways to include pictures 
from other programs like MrnDraw 
or Microsoft's Chart : Since all pic¬ 
tures are transferred into RSG by 
means of the Clipboard, you can 
bring in screen images from these 
programs by taking a screen “snap¬ 
shot 11 (pressing Control-Shift-3 
keys) or capturing a portion of die 
screen with the aid of any of die 
public-domain FKEY (function key) 
routines diat perform this function. 

THE RULE OF RULES (AND OTHER 
GRAPHIC ELEMENTS) 

The creative use of elements like 
boxes, rules and “tints” (gray shaded 
areas comprised of dots) is what 
gives publications a professional 
sheen. RSG treats these simple 
graphic pieces in a far different man¬ 
ner than other desktop publishing 
software or even graphics programs 
like MacDraw and MacPaint . 

For one thing, RSG makes no 
distinction between large solid boxes 
and thin lines, A line is just a “Solid” 
block—chosen from the Create 
menu once again—that is com¬ 
pressed in one dimension. Squeeze it 
horizonally to get a vertical line and 
vertically for a horizontal rule. Like 
every other block, it can be resized 
and repositioned either with the 
mouse or from a dialog box. 

In addition ro their logical use to 
separate unrelated blocks, lines or 
rules are often used as decorations. A 
vertical line placed in the space be¬ 
tween two columns (called die “gut¬ 
ter 11 ) adds a distinctive, businesslike 
look to a page. It works best in very 
thin line widths. Narrow horizontal 
rules can be used effectively to sepa¬ 
rate data in catalogs or listings. In 
both cases, RSG allows users to set 
die line width to as narrow as .0139 
inch or 1 point (l/72nd of an inch). 
Coupled with RSG’s very powerful 
tabular capabilities, rules can be used 
to quickly generate forms and charts. 

Solid blocks need not remain 
black, nor must they stay rectangu¬ 
lar. The MODIFY dialog box that 
appears when a solid block is active 


offers die choice of black or three 
shades of gray, and can transform a 
rectangle to one with rounded cor¬ 
ners or to a circle. Stretching the 
circle yields an oval. 

Likewise, a “Frame” block—essen¬ 
tially a box—is made with a click on 
the Create menu. Modify the box by 
rounding its corners, or change it to 
a circle or an oval of specified dimen¬ 
sions. The frame’s lines (minimum 1 
point in width) can also remain black 
or tinted in one of the gray shades. 
Combining pictures, charts or 
graphs widi shaded frames or 
blocks—you place the larger shaded 
areas behind the picture with a SEND 
TO BACK command item—gives the 
same very contemporary look as 


Follows Mac Interface: «• 

Printed Documentation: **** 

On-Screen Help: •* 

Performance: **** 

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LES WALLER 


MAC 


OFFICE 


by 

Bonnie 

Walker 


BREAD 

AND 

BLITTER 


BUDGETING 


From investing in a 
condo to reducing your 
food bills, HAMac can 
help you plan your 
(future) fortunes . 


"A FOOL AND HIS MONEY 
are soon parted, 1 ' or so the saying 
goes. Even though most of us aren’t 
fools, vvc arc still soon parted from 
our money no matter how wisely we 
try to budget it. The Home Accoun¬ 
tant and Financial Planner for the 
Macintosh (HAMac) won't keep you 
and your money together longer, 
but it will at least provide a detailed 
set of records explaining where it all 
goes. In other words, it won't pro¬ 
long the marriage, but it will help 
you plan for the divorce! 

The HAMac and your personal 
system revolves around the personal 



checkbook you use to deposit in¬ 
come and write your bills. You can 
have several bank accounts {check¬ 
ing, savings, investment, etc.). Your 
transactions, however, will be as¬ 
signed to one set of “categories* or 
“accounts.” 

DEFINING CATEGORIES 

Your first task is to define and 
enter your categories {up to 200), 
either all at once or as you go. 

Each category must be assigned a 
“type,” such as income, asset, charge 
account, expense, liability, or bank 
account. An asset is a possession that 
has value such as a car or a house or a 
computer. Cars and computers usu¬ 
ally depreciate; houses often appreci¬ 
ate. Users can enter the current value 
and estimate the amount each asset 
will appreciate or depreciate. Any 
asset that gathers interest or even 
dividends and capital gains, probably 
works best as a bank account in 
which deposits and withdrawals can 
be made. 

Charge accounts like Visa, Ameri¬ 
can Express or gasoline credit cards 
can be identified as either charge 
accounts or expenses. Since a gaso- 


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BREAD AND BUTTER BUDGETING 


line credit card is one account with 
one category of purchases, it is prob¬ 
ably easier to make it an expense- A 
charge account category lets you 
enter purchases from different ven¬ 
dors and assign each to a different 
category. You can also create a cate¬ 
gory such as “finance charge” and 
keep track of that {currently} tax 
deductable expense. 

A liability is a debt you owe. The 
main problem with liabilities is that 
die payment is usually split into at 
least two categories, interest and 
principal. You should do an amorti¬ 
zation table, entering the starting 
amount of each loan you have* the 
amount of loan, interest rate, etc. 
and create three categories. 

For example, Jan Hartk bought a 
house costing $75,000. The house is 
an asset appreciating about five per 
cent a year. Jan also has a mortgage 
of $65,000. The mortgage is a liabil- 
tty. When the HAMac, figures out 
Jan’s net worth, it subtracts all liabil¬ 
ities from assets and comes up with a 
“net” amount. The third category 
associated with this asset is the inter¬ 
est paid on the loan. (A fourth might 
be the property taxes.) When each 
payment is entered, Jan selects SPLIT 
as the category and divides the 
amount of the payment between 
interest and principal as the amorti¬ 
zation tabic she printed out' indi¬ 
cates. The principal she assigns to 
the liability and HAMac, reduces the 
amount of the liability. You can “pro¬ 
ject” the value or total amount of 
each category—in other words, do a 
budget. 

HAMac lets you figure deprecia¬ 
tion or appreciation for your assets. 
You can also identify each one as 
“tax” or “nontax” item. For example, 
most income is taxable. Food, an 
expense category, is usually not a 
taxable or tax deductable item. Later 
you may request a report of all “tax” 
items. All reports will indicate 
whether a transaction is a “tax” item 
or not. 

Some peo pie h ate to budget, 
thinking it an unnecessary chore or 
even a restriction on their right of 
self-determination. But with HA- 
Mac*s budget feature, all you need to 
do is “estimate” die amount of mon¬ 
ey you think you’ll spend each 


month in each category. HAMac 
then keeps track of how much mon¬ 
ey you do spend each month, vour 
annual total to date, and how much 
you are “under” or “over” the esti¬ 
mates. No one need ever know* but 
a beautifully printed HAMac budget 
graph is terrific evidence when a 
member of the household lias ex¬ 
ceeded die budgeted amount for any 
category (or even for all categories). 

WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? 

People who use the HAMac will 
probably fall into one of two broad 
groups: Those who want the infor¬ 
mation to be very accurate (to the 
penny if possible), and those who 
are happy with a dose estimate of 
their resources. Members of the first 
group probably balance their check¬ 
books every month; the second 
group leaves a little cushion in their 
checking accounts, “just in case.” 

If you want an exact record of all 
your financial resources, it will be 
necessary to do some planning on 
paper before you start entering 
transactions. The “rest of us” can 
jump right in. Let’s look at the fast 
approach first. 

CATEGORIES AS YOU GO! 

Carolyn and Don Wilson want to 
keep a record of the checks they 
write. They’d like to know how 
much they spend every' month on 
major categories like food, utilities, 
entertainment* etc. Basically they’d 
like to know where their monc/s 
going. They own a home and item¬ 
ize deductions on federal tax forms. 
However* the taxes and interest are 
part of the monthly payment and the 
bank reports the totals at die end of 
die year. The main tax-deductable 
categories that the Wilsons need to 
keep track of are medical expenses 
and charitable contributions. The 
Wilsons have one checking account, 
one savings account, and an invest¬ 
ment account. They would like an 
estimate of the total value of their 
assets. 

HAAlac users like the Wilsons can 
really jump right in and enter a 
starting balance for their personal 
checkbook (one of the default cate¬ 
gories) and then begin entering 
checks and deposits ro the account. 
Just add categories as you go. For 


example* let’s say the first check of 
the year was to the Comer Market 
for food. Type the name, “Comer 
Market,” the amount* and the cate¬ 
gory “food.” 

When you click on SAVE, the HA- 
Mac will inform you that there is no 
such category. You dicn pull down 
the Lists menu and dick ADD CATE¬ 
GORY and type the information in. 
You’ll assign this category to the 
expense group. 

PLANNING AHEAD 

The Wilsons will nor get into any 
major difficulties with their “design 
as you go” system that grows like 
Topsey unless they get confused us¬ 
ing an estimated financial record. 
Carolyn Wilson, for example* is hap¬ 
py to know that their financial worth 
is about $250,000. Don, on the 
other hand* recognizes that a few 
mistakes in the system have made ail 
of dicir totals a bit oft' and it bothers 
him. He decides mid-ycar to prepare 
an amortization table for his car loan 
and enters principal and interest as 
SPLIT transactions, assigning die 
principal payment to the liability 
category (Loan-auto) and die rest to 
Interest-Auto so diat he can tell how 
much he still owes on the car from 
month to month. 

REVISING RECORDS 

HAMac is friendly about making 
revisions, so friendly it even features 
a category' called Adjustment. Don 
can sdcct adjustment in any category 
and then add or subrract from that 
category's balance. Another method 
is to select a transaction and simply 
change die amount* category', or 
other information. But, dierc is one 
problem—you can change or elimi¬ 
nate SPLIT transactions, but you 
cannot create a SPLIT category once 
a transaction has been saved. 

Although the “create a category” 
as you go method works just fine in 
most cases, it is a good idea to enter 
all “starting balances” for each ac¬ 
count before starring to enter trans¬ 
actions for a new year. Carolyn cre¬ 
ated die MasterCard category when 
she wanted to enter a payment 
check. Then she learned diat she 
could not adjust the starting balance 
in a category after she had selected 
diat category for a transaction. The 


76MACUSER APR 


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only way to make the total owed 
correct {bringing over the balance 
from the previous year) was to use 
the Adjustment Category, 

BUDGETING 

A “budget” is simply a projection 
or an estimate of either income or an 
expense. Click twice on a category to 
set up a budget with HAMac . The 
Wilsons used totals for various cate¬ 
gories from the previous year to get 
starred, dividing the totals by 12 and 
entering die average amounts for 
several categories such as electricity, 
hearing, gasoline, telephone. For 
quarterly bills, they entered an 
amount for only the months they’d 
be billed. HAMac lets you be as exact 
as you need to be. 

Once die information has been 
entered, go back to your checkbook 
and click SAVE (or press ENTER) and 
enter your next check. 

Every month, the Wilsons can 
look under the Graph menu to see 
how their budget looks in compari¬ 
son with their expenses. 

The Wilsons will now have totals 
at the end of the year with respect to 
the categories they created on an “ad 


hoc” basis. They have an estimate of 
their financial situation. 

DID THE FREEZER SAVE MONEY? 

HAMac can help you figure out 
specific information about costs or 
saving. In January 1985, the Wilsons 
bought a freezer. They knew it 
would be convenient but wondered 
if buying meats in large quantities on 
sale really saved them money. Using 
the 1984 food total (without the 
freezer), they entered the average 
monthly food bill as the budgeted 
amount. Then they used the HAMac 
customized graph feature to produce 
a graph showing their food budget 
only. In this case, the Wilsons were 
pleased to find that they actually 
spent less money on food in the year 
with the freezer. 

PRECISE TO THE PENNY 

John and Sally Marsh like to keep 
their checkbook balanced to die pen¬ 
ny. They want to use their HAMac 
data to prepare their income tax. 
They’d like a financial statement ac¬ 
curate enough to use at a bank when 
they apply for a loan. The Marshes 
did some preplanning before they 


entered the first transaction. They 
prepared a list of categories and 
subcategorics “on paper” to match 
federal tax deduction categories, in¬ 
cluding Medical Expenses (Doc* 
tors. Transportation, Other), Taxes 
(Stare, Federal, Local), Real Estate, 
and so on. 

THREE WAYS TO KEEP (ON) TRACK 

The Marshes had three options 
available which would allow them to 
keep track of the total amount spent 
in subcategories. First, they consid¬ 
ered using the “Memo” They could 
enter Taxes as die category and iden- 
dfy the subcaccgory by typing 
“State, Real Estate, General Sales,” 
etc. beside “Memo” HAMac al¬ 
lowed the Marshes to prepare cus¬ 
tomized transaction reports search¬ 
ing by category and by memo. Of 
course, the use of the memo must be 
consistent (spelled exactly the same 
way) and since HAMac does not 
save lists of memos, the Marshes 
would need to prepare a list and save 
it outside of the computer. 

While the Memo method was at¬ 
tractive, die Marshes rejected it 
when they discovered that SPLIT 
transactions did not permit them to 
enter a separate memo beside each 
item. If they tried to enter a mort¬ 
gage payment or loan payment, die 
memo method would not work. In 
addition, die “accuracy” required 
was too taxing even for die Marshes. 
Any variety among memo entries 
would make this entire method in¬ 
valid. 

The second method considered by 
the Marshes was simply to enter each 
subcategory as a separate category, 
like Taxes—Federal, Taxes—State, 
and so on. 

The HAAlac's 200-category limit 
(which includes all assets, income 
sources, charge accounts, bank ac¬ 
counts, liabilities and expense cate¬ 
gories) could be restrictive, but the 
Marshes’ paper list indicated that 
this was a viable option. 

The third method lor creating 
subcategorics with HAMac required 
using ID codes, a two-letter code 
that can be used to identify special 
characteristics of a transaction. For 
example, the Marshes could create 
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CARL WESLEY 


EDUCATION 



Jumping Jupiter! Look, 


up in the sky! Need to 


know what's up there? 


Here's a fieid guide to 


Macintosh astronomy 


programs . 


MICROCOMPUTERS HAVE LONG 
had a respected place in astronomy, 
from controlling telescopes for ad¬ 
vanced amateurs to flying digital 
duty on the Space Shuttle. As far 
back as 1976, some adventurous 
NASA programmers were exploring 
ways to use kit-built micros to help 
interpret data from satellites such as 
LANDS AT* 

For "the rest of us,” however, 
astronomy software use has ap¬ 
peared only recently, no doubt 
spurred on in part by the arrival of 


Comet Halley, Although the selec¬ 
tion is still slim, the delay has al¬ 
lowed designers to ensure that most 
of the packages make good use of 
the Mac's capabilities. Several of 
them are of real value to 
skywatchcrs. 

To be useful, certain fundamental 
features should be in any astronomy 
program. Plotting the positions of 
the planets and Moon according to 
user-specified times and locations is 
a must, with some limit to accuracy 
(all microcomputer astronomy pro¬ 
grams must accept a certain degree 
of approximation to obtain a reason¬ 
able operating speed). Constellation 
mapping (drawing lines between ap¬ 
propriate stars to reveal the popular 
figures) and right ascension/decltna- 
tion (RA/dec) to altitude/azimuth 
(alt-azimuth) coordinate conversions 
are necessary, as is some indication 
of stellar magnitudes (see “Astro- 
Terms"). It ts also helpful if objects 
can be identified by pointing and 
clicking on them. 

Finally, the database of celestial 
objects should be reasonably “deep," 
certainly enough so that the major 
constellations arc clearly revealed. 


and so that it includes some “deep- 
sky" features such as the nebulae and 
clusters in the Messier catalog. 

Predictably, not all astronomy 
software is created equal. Unlike 
spreadsheets and word processors, 
refined through years of competi¬ 
tion, astro programs on the Mac 
(and elsewhere) differ greatly from 
one another in appearance and sheer 
utility* With so much software today 
available only by mail, there is a real 
risk of buying sight-unseen a pro¬ 
gram that falls short of one's needs. 

ASTRONOMY 

This program provides two view¬ 
ing windows, one for the night sky 
and another for the solar system 
(Fig. 1). The time, date and viewing 
location in latitude and longitude arc 
entered in a dialog box when the 
program first is booted, and can be 
changed later using a RESET option 
on the Control menu. After each 
change, bodi windows are recalculat¬ 
ed in turn (if they are open). 

Each window can be resized to fill 
the entire screen, or closed altogeth¬ 
er. Another, more interesting, menu 
option permits “zooming" in or out 


APRIL 1986 MACU5ER79 









THE STAR-STRUCK MAC 


Fig. 1: Astronomy's over¬ 
head Shy View is jumbled 
by overlapping text and 
hyphenated stars. 



Fig. 2: The shy plot from 
MacSfronomy, with Moon 
diagram, parameter box 
and neighboring change 
boxes. (Note Comet Halley 
above Jupiter.J 



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on selected spots, thus enlarging or 
shrinking the viewing area by about 
150% and placing the selected spot 
at the center of the window. (A 
REPOSITION option only reccnters 
the viewing area.) 

The “Solar System” window 
draws a polar, or overhead, view of 
the Sun and planets, with orbits 
indicated by ellipses. Because of' the 
enormous scale of our system, only 
planets from Jupiter and beyond are 
plotted initially; zooming in towards 
the Sun reveals the inner bodies. 

In the “Sky View” window, a 
circular plotting area representing 
the night sky shows die more impor¬ 
tant stars of the major constellations, 
along with the visible planets. Sun, 
Moon, and, naturally. Comer Hal¬ 
ley. Labels appear next to the promi¬ 
nent stars and planets. A polar grid 
showing altitude and azimuth over¬ 
lays the plotting area; star positions 
change relative to the grid according 
to die date and viewing location. 
Unfortunately, die grid is inverted 
compared to the sky: cast is shown 
to the right, whereas when looking 
overhead, it lies to the left. 


This, astonishingly, stands as the 
sum total of Astronomy's capabilities. 
Some of the basic requirements for 
any useful astronomy program are 
simply lacking: right ascension and 
declination information, horizon 
views, and constellation mapping, to 
name a few. 

Further, those features that are 
present have surprising limitations: 
recalculation of the sky plot after 
changing the date takes quite a long 
time (about 3 minutes); zooming in 
too far reveals empty space devoid of 
any celestial object or gridline (faint¬ 
er stars do not appear); while zoom¬ 
ing continually outward compresses 
the entire known universe into a 
chaotic point. Worse, zooming in 
only lengthens the recalculation time 
for that window, even if the result 
displavs nothing at all. 

The plotting method of die Sky 
View window is also less than ideal: 
most stars are drawn as hyphens, and 
planet and starnames frequently 
overlap. And although closing the 
Solar System window speeds up the 
redisplay of the Sky View plot by 
eliminating planetary calculations. 


Astronomy's disk-based manual warns 
that it docs not prevent the obvious 
error that can result: changing time 
or place with a closed Solar System 
window w ill properly redraw stellar 
positions but not planetary 7 ones, 
causing erroneous plots. 

All in alf, despite some interesting 
and unique features. Astronomy -—at 
least version 2.8—appears to be 
more of an experiment in translating 
spherical astronomy formulae into 
computer graphics than a useful pro¬ 
gram for amateur observers or arm¬ 
chair astronomers. 

MACSTR0N0MY 

MacSwonomy provides much more 
functionality than Astronomy. The 
program uses three displays—a cir¬ 
cular overhead sky view (Fig. 2), a 
polar view of the solar system with a 
zooming feature similar to Astivno- 
my\ and a separate Description win¬ 
dow dm shows basic textual data on 
each item in the program’s database. 

Both the overhead Sky plot and 
the Planet solar system view have 
adjacent boxes indicating basic view¬ 
ing parameters such as date, time 
and location. These parameters can 
be changed by clicking diem and 
dien clicking in a row of small ad¬ 
justment boxes that appear, some¬ 
what akin to changing the Mac’s 
internal clock with the Control Pan¬ 
el. Any such adjustment causes the 
sky map to sprout a DISPLAY burton 
as a warning that the current sky 
view is not synchronized with the 
parameter box. 

A variety of features are offered, 
among them astronomic symbols 
(1,^, 9 ) in the sky plot, a moon 
phase diagram in one corner of the 
display, a compass rose in another 
corner, optional constellation map¬ 
ping, and “point-and-dick” identifi¬ 
cation. A single dick on any spot 
causes a box to appear with its 
coordinates; a double click brings up 
the coordinates as well as the object’s 
name and a DESCRIBE button that, 
when pressed, jumps to the Descrip¬ 
tion window to show the pertinent 
info from the database. 

To locate a specific object, a menu 
option called FIND can be used in 
conjunction with the Description 
window to display the reference. 


80MACUSER APRIL 1986 




































Fig. 3: Comet Halley 
traces the famous object 
across the shy, and pro* 
rides a wealth of viewing 
tilts for observers. 



This can then be “accepted” to re¬ 
turn to the Sky Data window with 
the object's coordinates in the identi¬ 
fication box. Now, clicking on the 
identification box will cause the ob¬ 
ject to biink in the sky view. 

It’s possible to fix the plotting 
area, either to a RA/dcc* spot or to 
an alt-azimuth one, so that changing 
the viewing parameters lets you ei¬ 
ther follow a part of the sky around, 
or always face in one direction. Fur¬ 
ther, die amount of sky displayed 
(and, thus, the scale of the view) can 
be changed by varying the view 
“diameter.” 

One criticism relates to the com¬ 


pass rose: although properly orient¬ 
ed (east to the left) when facing 
south and looking overhead, the rose 
does not change its angle when the 
sky plot is revolved using different 
alt-azimuth settings. In addition, be¬ 
cause the plot area is always circular, 
there is no indication of the “real” 
horizon; you are not always sure of 
whether you can actually sec what 
the program seems to show. 

MocStronomfs most unusual fea¬ 
ture is a user-editable database of 
celestial objects (as many as 3,000 
objects are allowed). The program's 
basic data are saved mMacWrite text 
files with the relevant formats de¬ 


scribed in the manual, so users can 
add or alter object information— 
even planetary symbols. The pro¬ 
gram will automatically convert the 
modified file to the necessary inter¬ 
nal format for use in plotting. 

COMET HALLEY 

Great Wave Software—distributor 
of ConcertWare +—markets this pro¬ 
gram, which is not a general astrono¬ 
my package, but rather focuses on 
providing a wealth of useful infor¬ 
mation for observing the 
1985-1986 apparition of the most 
famous of all periodic comets. As 
such, it performs excellently. 

Once given a viewing date, time 
zone and latitude, Comet Halley gen¬ 
erates a square window of the eve¬ 
ning sky, showing Halley's estimated 
location (Fig. 3). Various options 
include moving the comet forward 
or backward a day, tracing its path 
with small circles, overlaying a RA- 
/dec. grid, adding constellation 
names and mapping, etc. Most strik¬ 
ing is the program's ability to auto¬ 
matically advance the comet’s daily 
position forward or backward at one 
second intervals, thus giving the illu¬ 
sion of motion. 


ASTRO TERMS 


Making sense of astro-programs 
for the Macintosh requires familiar¬ 
ity with the basic terminology. 
Some of the following terms may be 
helpful: 

Alt-azimuth: the coordinate sys¬ 
tem using azimuth and elevation as 
Its basis. 

Azimuth: the distance in degrees 
along the horizon from geographic 
north (or south, depending on the 
authority). For example, due east 
equals 90* (or 270°). 

Declination: similar to latitude, a 
measurement of the north/south lo¬ 
cation of an object in the sky. 
Measured from the celestial equa¬ 
tor. an imaginary plane drawn out¬ 
wards from the Earth’s equator. 

Ecliptic: the apparent path of the 
sun through the celestial sphere, 
tilted from the celestial equator by 
about 23.5° and caused by the 
earth's own tilt with respect to its 
motion around the sun. 

Elevation, altitude: the distance 


above the horizon of an object, in 
degrees (e.g., directly overhead 
equals 90°). 

Equatorial: the projection of the 
earth's equator onto the celestial 
sphere. 

Julian date: the number of a giv¬ 
en date, measured in a sequence 
from noon on January 1, 4713 B.C. 
Thus noon on January 1, 1985 
starts Julian day 2,446,067.0, 

Magnitude: the brightness of a 
celestial object, with 0 magnitude 
being very bright and 6 being very 
dim. Each higher number is about 
2.5 times fainter than the previous. 

Messier catalogue: 110 perma¬ 
nent "deep-sky” objects listed be¬ 
gun by Charles Messier in 1784, to 
distinguish them from comets he 
was hunting. 

Precession: the extremely slow 
(26,000 year) wobble of the earth 
on its axis. 

Right ascension: similar to longi¬ 
tude. a coordinate system for mea¬ 


suring the east/west location of an 
object in the sky. Uses hours/min¬ 
utes/seconds rather than degrees, 
so 24 hrs, equals 360° and 1 hour 
equals 15°, The zero point is the 
vernal equinox, where the sun is 
located in the sky on the first day of 
spring. 

Sidereal time: "star time". If one 
side of the Earth always faced the 
Sun, )t would always be midnight on 
the dark side, and no solar days 
would pass. But in the course of a 
year, as the Earth circles the Sun 
once, it would revolve once with 
respect to the stars—a sidereal 
day. There are approximately 365 
solar days and 366 sidereal days In 
a given year. 

View parameters: the data neces¬ 
sary to compute the positions of 
celestial objects as seen from a 
specific location on a certain date: 
day, time, latitude, longitude, etc. 

Zenith: the point directly over¬ 
head from a given location. 


APR 


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THE STAR-STRUCK MAC 


Program 

Astronomy 

MacStronomy 

Comet Halley 

TellStar 

Source of data 

? 

Sky Catalogue 
2000.0 

? 

Skalnate Pleso, 
Sky Catalogue 
2000.0, etc. 

Minimum-maximum dates 

none 

0-3000 AO 

2000 AD ± 50 yrs. 


8/85 to 7/86 

Maximum no. of objects 

7 

±3000 

constellations 

? 

Star magnitudes 

3.0? 

5,0 

4,0. constellations 


constellations 

Language 

7 

Lisa Pascal 

Megamax G 

MS-BASIC 

Author 

Ed Tomaszewski 

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plotted objects* Within the plot area, 
the cursor becomes a small crosshair, 
centering on any object and clicking 
the mouse once fills the parameter 
box with pertinent information ^uch 
as name, coordinates, magnitude and 
visibility. (If you forget where the 
object was originally or change the 
view, simply clicking in the parame¬ 
ter box will cause the object to 
blink.) Further, finding a specific 
object can be accomplished by using 
a menu command called FIND and 
entering its name into a dialogue 
box: the plot window automatically 
locates the object and places a blink¬ 
ing cursor on it. Planetary data can 
be placed in the parameter box by 
selecting an appropriate menu item 
and choosing from a box of radio 
buttons. 

One criticism of TellStafs sky 
views arises from the way it indicates 
constellations: besides optional map¬ 
ping, each constellation is marked by 
a small lower case V’ adjacent to it. 
Unfortunately, this extraneous char¬ 
acter confuses the sky display for 
experienced observers by interfering 
with die natural patterns of the con¬ 
stellations themselves. 

Another minor problem concerns 
the compass rose next to the plot 
region* Where the sky plots show 
the correct orientation—east to the 
left and west to the right—the com¬ 
pass rose is reversed, with the cardi¬ 
nal points as they would appear on a 
standard geographical map. 

The program comes in two ver¬ 
sions: TellStar I covers only to the 
Northern Hemisphere’s viewable 
universe, while TellStar II covers the 
entire sky and includes a complete 


In addition, several menu choices 
open windows with a variety of 
textual and graphic information: 
Moon Tnfo, Comet Halley Position, 
Viewing Tips, Viewing Instruments, 
and—most important—a Horizon 
Window showing the comet’s height 
in the sky. Using this information, a 
novice or beginning amateur observ¬ 
er can get out into the field and 
without much practice see Halley 
wend its sinuous way through the 
heavens. 

TELLSTAR I & II 

TellStar has a long and respected 
history: versions have existed for 
various microcomputers (originally 
the Apple II) since its development 
in 1980. It is thus no surprise to find 
that it stands as the most sophisticat¬ 
ed astronomy package available for 
the Mac. 

After some fancy opening graphics 
and a request for the necessary date 
and location, TellStar presents a list 
of calculations as it performs them. 
This takes about 2 minutes (while 
the cursor becomes an hourglass). 

Fig* 4: The overhead win- 
dour from TefrSter shows 
stars with various magni¬ 
tude symbols and constel¬ 
lations with small *Vs*" 


Once completed, however, the pro¬ 
gram runs at a very good clip, faster 
than any of the other packages save 
the more limited Comet Halley —an 
astonishing feat, since it is written in 
BASIC. (Because Microsoft BAS/C 
for the Mac is an interpretive rather 
than compiled language, TellStar for 
the Mac is somewhat slower than 
versions on the IBM PC and its 
clones.) 

TellStar provides nvo alternative 
types of sky plots: a circular over¬ 
head view with the zenith in the 
center (Fig. 4) and square plots 
showing horizon views from the 
various points of the compass (Fig. 
5). Each view shows a range of star 
symbols to indicate differences in 
magnitude. Switching back and 
forth is accomplished with an adja¬ 
cent compass rose, using “radio but¬ 
tons"’ at points corresponding to the 
desired views* (A check box selects 
the overhead projection.) Above the 
compass rose is a box listing the view 
parameters* 

TellStar permits an easy form of 
point-and-click identification for 



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rather than partial Messier catalogue. 
Both versions offer several utilities— 
routines for: converting alt-azimuth 
coordinates to RA/dec; equatorial 
coordinates to ecliptic; precession 
since the 1950 epoch (used by many 
star charts); and so forth. 

WHAT’S IN THE STARS? 

The Mac lends itself to superb 
graphical displays, and each of the 
packages reviewed here take advan¬ 
tage of that. On the other hand, each 
computes the necessary astronomical 
positions with limited precision, 
usually by eliminating such factors as 


orbital perturbations for the planets, 
which affects calculations only in the 
far future or past. 

Astronomy provides an unusual 
perspective on the solar system and 
can zoom around the sky; but be¬ 
yond this there is little more to it. Its 
slowness and lack of other basic 
capabilities make it more of a dem¬ 
onstration program than a utility. 

MacStronomy goes much further, 
containing many features useful and 
even educational to novice observers 
and students getting their first expo¬ 
sure to the field of astronomy. Par¬ 
ticularly interesting is the expandable 


database, which allows for custom¬ 
ized sky displays. A new version due 
out shortly will be faster and per¬ 
form more precise calculations. 

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aid to anyone hunting the great 
comet for themselves, even when 
used alongside the wealth of Halley 
books and magazines. Ho other pro¬ 
gram presents as much information 
and detail on Halley as this one. Its 
“automatic” plotting mode brings to 
life die pace and path of the comet, 
better than any static chart. 

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only describing the operation of the 
program, but providing a astronomi¬ 
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the locations of dozens of prominent 
stars and Messier objects. This 
would be my first choice to help plan 
an evening’s observing session out in 
the field. 

Now, speaking of “out in the 
field,” if we could find a way to 
shrink the Mac to pocket size.Ej| 


REPORT CARDS 


ASTRONOMY v. 2.8 

Overall Rating: 

•* 

Follows Mac Interface: 

ftftft 

Printed Documentation: 

None 

On-Screen Help: 

None 

Performance: 

•• 

Support: 

? 

Consumer Value: 

• 


Comments: Slow and limited. 


Best feature: Zoom in or out of 
the sky plot. 

Worst feature: Lack of right as- 
cension/deci ination coordinates. 

List price: $35. 

Published by E & M Software Co, T 
95 Richardson Rd, T N. Chelmsford, 
MA 01863. (617) 251-7451. 


TELLSTAR I & It 

Overall Rating : •#••• 

Follows Mac Interface: •*•• 

Printed Documentation: ••••• 

On-Screen Help: None 

Performance: mmm+m 

Support: ' ? 


Consumer Value: 

Comments: Strong, useful pack¬ 
age for novices and intermediate 
amateurs. 

Best feature: Quick sky plotting 
and horizon views. 

Worst feature: Extraneous mark¬ 
ers for constellations. 

List price: $49,94 (ver.l) and 
79,95 (ver, II). 

Published by Spectrum HoloByte, 
Inc,, 1050 Walnut, #325, Boulder, 
00 80302. (303) 443-0191. 


MACSTRONOMY 

Overall Rating: ##• 

Follows Mac interface: *•* 

Printed Documentation: •*•• 

On-Screen Help: None 

Performance: 

Support: ? 

Consumer Value: ••* 


Comments: Good beginning as¬ 
tronomy program. 

Best feature. Editable database 


ana plot symbols. 

Worst feature: Using viewing pa¬ 
rameters is overly complicated. 
List price: $75. 

Published by Etlon Software, P0 


Box 649, Lafayette, CO 
(303) 665-3444. 

80026. 

COMET HALLEY 

Overall Rating: 

••ft* 

Follows Mac Interface: 


Printed Documentation: 

••• 

On-Screen Help: 

None 

Performance: 

•••• 

Support: 

? 

Consumer Value: 

•••• 


Comments: Educational and use¬ 
ful aid for following Comet Halley, 

Best feature: Automatic daily 
plotting. 

Worst feature: Limited lifetime. 

List price: $29.95. 

Published by Great Wave Soft¬ 
ware, P0 Box 5847, Stanford, CA 
94305, (415) 325-2202. 


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ENTERTAINMENT 



THE 

CHEAT 

SHEET 

Who Says , "Von Only Cheat Yourself?” 


1 LOVE ADVENTURE GAMES. I 
stayed up past midnight for six solid 
weeks trying to bear the thief in Zork 
/; I agonized for weeks about where 
to find the “exotics” hinted at in 
Ultima 111 . I wouldn’t put down my 
copy of Roque until I had gotten to 
the twenty-sixth level, found the 
Amulet and clawed my way back out 
of the dungeon. 

Fvc solved them all— Wizardry's 
evil wizard cringes at the sight of me. 
Ultima's Lord British seems to like 
me even though I always clean out 
his treasure room. My certificate of 
completion for Deja Vu: A Night¬ 
mare Comes True's “Ace Harding 
School of Detectives” hangs in a 
place of honor above my desk. Sin¬ 
gle-minded? Maybe. Crazy? Abso¬ 
lutely. How do 1 do it? It’s easy. I 
cheat. 

Am I only cheating myself) May¬ 
be. But then, most adventure games 
require at least a few months of 
undivided attention, and even the 
most sophisticated cheating can only 
pare down that time a little bit. 
o Cheating in an adventure game is a 

3 little bit like pecking under the cards 


APRIL 1986 MACUSER87 










THE CHEAT SHEET 


while playing solitaire—except that 
solitaire only takes a few minutes to 
play, while the larger adventures can 
take nearly a year to complete. If you 
enjoy savoring ever)' little triumph 
and defeat, stop reading now. But if 
you want to turn the odds to your 
favor as much as possible, read on 
for hints on how to get past your 
adventuring roadblocks—without 
resorting to Fedit, that is. 

DOING IT THE MAC WAY 

The Mac offers a feature not 
found on other gaming microcom¬ 
puters, a boon to any adventurer 
who likes to walk the fence between 
carefully exploring ever)' possibility 
and losing it all in total recklessness. 
This feature lets you enter any area, 
fight with any creature or test out 
any situation that strikes your fancy, 
all without the slightest possibility of 
permanently damaging the game in 
progress—even on an adventure like 
Wizardry that immediately writes 
your foolish moves to disk. 

It’s called a lockable disk. 

When the little tab on a Mac disk 
is set to the up position, that disk 
can still perform as usual—except, of 
course, that it can’t alter the existing 
files in any way. With games like 
Rogue, which immediately tally a 
player’s death by erasing the game 
file, it’s a great way to preserve a 
particularly good game. 

Every piece of game software for 
the Mac includes the built-in COM¬ 
MAND-SHIFT-1 “eject" function key. 
Just play with the locked disk, then, 
when you want to save the game, 
eject it, unlock it, and stick it back in 
the drive. The Mac might get a little 
confused and spit the disk back out, 
but it will immediately ask for it 
again. 

A few games like Wizardry and 
Rogue update your file automatically 
as you play, even without a Save 
Game selection. If you’ve grown 
attached to the characters you nursed 
along from mere neophytes, locking 
your playing disk is the easiest way 
around this pesky quandrv* 

THE IMPORTANCE OF 
SAVING EARNESTLY 

Whether your adventure prefer¬ 
ences run to medieval fantasy or 



Invislclues are printed in invisible ink so you 
only have to see the answers you need right now. 


high-finance money games, the most 
important edge you can give yourself 
is to save the game frequently—and 
preferably to different file names, if 
the program allows for it. That gives 
you the flexibility of being able to 
pick up the action at different points 
in time, often gaining insights with¬ 
out having to tough out the conse¬ 
quences. 

For example. Blue Chip’s financial 
games (Millionaire, Baron, Tycoon 
and Squire) create the entire course 
of commodity prices when players 
initiate a new game. If you play 
through six months of price fluctua¬ 
tions and end up losing your fortune 
in a bad deal, just go back to a file 
from the same game that you saved 
earlier and play out the time again. 
In these scenarios, forewarned is 
definitely forearmed! 

The situation is reversed in Make 
Millions , although diat doesn’t mean 
you can’t turn it to your advantage. 
In this high-finance role-playing 
game, world news—and therefore, 
stock prices—are generated random¬ 
ly with each new round. That means 
that if you took a bath on Aloha 
Lumber the first time around, re¬ 
verting to a game saved earlier could 
just change the course of history. 

Some games take up so much disk 
space that it’s hard to save more than 
one or two games at a time. In that 
case, just use the Finder to copy your 
game files to a backup. It may be 
more time-consuming than just lock¬ 
ing the disk before playing, but it 
allows you more flexibility within 
each file, plus the reassurance that at 


least one of your saved games is 
safely stashed out of harm’s way. 
Copying files to backups is the surest 
way of holding on to the progress 
you worked so hard to achieve. 

OPTIONS? YOU WANT OPTIONS? 

Some adventures offer players dif¬ 
ferent skill settings. Needless to say, 
if you play on the Novice level 
instead of the Advanced, the going 
will be much easier throughout the 
game—but it will take you far less 
time to solve the scenario. A few 
games, like Pryority’s Forbidden 
Quest and Gateway, even offer on¬ 
line hints, which save players the 
trouble of having to plough through 
logjams by the usual methods. Of 
course, using the hint option often 
means you’ll lose a number of points 
corresponding to the difficulty of the 
hint, but it’s an easy solution when 
there’s no recourse left. 

Sometimes, a game’s difficulty set¬ 
tings can be used to familiarize your¬ 
self with a particular area or scenario 
of a game. For example, in Broder- 
bund’s The Ancient An of War, you 
could try out each scenario with a 
trial run set to the easiest of the 
difficulty options—forests can be 
made sparse instead of dense, water 
can be calm and shallow as opposed 
to deep and dangerous, and so on. 
After cutting your teeth on the easi¬ 
est settings, you’ll have an idea of 
how to figure out the right strategies 
when the difficulty settings are set in 
their “natural” positions. 

BEGGING AND BORROWING 

If you belong to CompuServe, The 
Source, Plato or any other network, 
the answer to your adventure game 
quandry might be just a phone call 
away. Most networks have special 
sections devoted to games, or at least 
to light conversation, and a little 
time and patience might unearth 
someone with the knowledge you 
need. 

Of course, there’s no shame in 
calling die company for the solution 
to an impasse—as long as you don’t 
expect them to play the entire game 
for you. Most game manufacturers 
list their telephone numbers on the 
box, or if you can’t find it there, 
check the MacUscr review for it. 


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THE CHEAT SHEET 


WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS 

In response to a large demand 
from frustrated adventure game 
players, many companies sell hint 
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around problems that they can't 
seem to solve by themselves* 

Infocom, creator of a number of 
classic text adventures (Zork , Star- 
cross. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) 
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booklets for its entire line of games. 
Called Inmichm, each pamphlet 
consists of pages of questions, each 
followed by several blank spaces. 
Players who get stuck before they 
can enter a palace might look up the 
answer to “What do I give the troll 
to let me pass?" under the Palace 
section* Then, they pass an enclosed 
developing marker over the blank 
space under the question to be given 
a general due The second due is 
more specific, and the third gives the 
outright answer. To keep adventur¬ 
ers from inadvertantly learning more 
than they want to just by looking at 
the booklet, a number of dummy 
questions are sprinkled in for good 
measure. 

Inmidues are available directly 
from Infocom, Ordering details are 
enclosed in every game box, or call 
i-800-262-6868 (in New Jersey, 
800-238-2200). S7.95 buys the due 
book, ink developing pen and, in 
most cases, a complete map of the 
game area. 

Solving the Ultima III quest in¬ 
volves more effort and strength of 
will than an Olympian decathlon. 
Origin Systems' hint booklet. Secrets 
ofSosana , doesn't go so far as to give 
outright answers to anything, but it 



Clockwise from the right: 
UHima M's hint book, Se¬ 
crets of So sari a; tnvisi- 
clues booklets for A Mind 
Forever Voyaging and 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the 
Galaxy; Arrays 1 book, Ad* 
venture Games M. 


does prov ide exact maps of every 
town and dungeon in the known 
game world, including the locations 
of traps, treasures, important people 
and die dreaded dungeon gremlins. 
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printed out with different symbols 
representing different things (a liv¬ 
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Its a little pricey ($12*95) for what 
you get, but the information and 
hints it contains are worth it in 
blood, sweat and tears. If your Ulti¬ 
ma III game box doesn’t include 
ordering information, contact Ori¬ 
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Manchester, NH 03103. 

A number of other sources exist 
for adventure game players willing 
to pay for the answers to their ques¬ 
tions* "QuestBusters" (see New On 
the Menu, MacUscr, February 1986) 
is a newsletter devoted entirely to 
adventure game (lobbying, with 
news, reviews and most importantly, 
dps for computer adventure game 
players* Write in with a problem and 
you just might get your solution. 


although it will probably take 
awhile. A one-year subscription to 
“QucstBustcrs" costs $15 a year. For 
information* contact "QuestBus- 
ters," 202 Elgin Court, Wayne, PA 
19087. 

As adventure gaming has expand¬ 
ed from a graveyard-shift techie’s 
domain into the mainstream micro¬ 
computer audience, book manufac¬ 
turers have jumped on die bandwag¬ 
on* Wc can't recommend a specific 
tide here—books go in and out of 
print, and as game trends change, 
the information in books goes out of 
date* Still, your local bookstore 
should have a large computer sec¬ 
tion, and hiding among all those 
programming tutorials and how-to- 
get- mo re- from - you r- da r abase man¬ 
uals there w ill probably be at least 
one independently written book of 
adventure game hints. Before buy¬ 
ing, though, make sure your game is 
included in the book by scanning the 
table of contents. 


CHEAT-PROOF GAMES 


Money talks. Here's a 
sample map from Arrays 1 
Adventure Games tL 
Tlie book also lists exact 
solutions to many text 
and illustrated adven¬ 
tures. 



Not all our cheat strategies work 
with each game, of course, but there 
are a few games in which nothing 
short of playing through carefully 
will suffice* Among them: Minds- 
capc’s Dcja Vu; A Nightmare Comes 
Tine; Activision’s Bonvwcd Time; 
Mindscape’s Balance of Power; Sier¬ 
ra’s Ultima II; and others. 

If locking files won’t avail, if there 
arc no clue books available, if the 
company won’t talk to you and if 
you don’t know what else to do, 
there are still a number of ways you 
can safeguard your game and still try 
(continued Jrom page 120) 


90MA€US£R APRIL 1986 


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WAR AND LOVE ARE MANKIND’S GREATEST PASSIONS, 
While die re’s no computer game yet invented which can 
simulate the art of love, Broderbund’s The Ancient AtIWjji 
War is a realistic enough simulation of war to satisfy mow 
people’s combat urgings. ' 

Though the game is not perfect, it does allow armchair 
generals to try their hands at both strategic and tactical levels. 
Some superb graphics and animation techniques make the 
on-screen happenings far more believable and personally 
involving than the hex-gridded fields and silhouetted sym¬ 
bols normally associated widi computer wargaming. 

The disk arrives with 11 scenarios that simulate battles 
which could have taken place in settings from the Old West 
to ancient China. It is also possible to simulate your own 
battles. In fact, once you have played and mastered die 
included scenarios, the staying power of this disk lies in 
accepting the challenge of making your own maps, creating 
new formations, and designing your own battles to fight. But 
before you can be a battle designer, you’ll have to learn the 
basic system of The Ancient Art of War. 

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* E Earl of Surrey F Lord Stanley L Lennox & Argyle 

Scots B G Home & Huntley H Crawford & Errol I King James IV K Bothwell 


Iht Hodden Hill scenario map. 


lakes, forests, villages and forts may 
all have their own effects on a battle 
fought by the various troops. 

The troops available include 
knights, barbarians, archers and 
spies. Each of these troops has vari¬ 
ous strengths and weaknesses. The 
knight is the most heavily armored, 
and so is best against unarmed bar¬ 
barians. The barbarian has no armor 
but is swift and agile, making him a 
difficult target for the archer. Ar¬ 
chers fight best at long ranges, but 
tend to crumple easily in hand to 
hand fighting. The spy is defenseless 
but simulates pointmen or outriders 
that detect enemy movement further 
away than troops without a spy 
could hope to see. 

The artwork used to represent 
these terrains and troops on the first, 
strategic, screen is very well execut¬ 
ed. In order to achieve a feeling that 
the game is indeed based on the old, 
old tome “The Ancient Art of War™ 
{written in about 400 BC in China), 
the artwork lias been rendered in a 
style very reminiscent of venerable 
Oriental woodcuts. This type of 
artwork seems peculiarly suited for 
the Mac^s high-resolution black and 
white graphics. 


Each squad of troops ts represent¬ 
ed on-screen by a silhouette of a 
warrior. This silhouette may be 
clicked on and then a line of march 
ordered for it by dragging a symbol 
with the mouse. The squad so or¬ 
dered will begin moving across the 
map. 

Each squad may be composed of 
units (up to fourteen individual 
troops) representing any combina¬ 
tion of the four styles of soldiery. 
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presents a dialog box which shows 
the present makeup of the squad, its 
overall physical condition and level 
of supply. This dialog box also 
shows the squads present speed of 
marching and a Speed Button that 
allows the player to change the speed 
of movement at any time. 

As the unit crosses the various 
terrain at various speeds, the squad’s 
condition and food supply changes. 
And these conditions can be critical 
during combat. 

But before combat is even initiat¬ 
ed, the same dialog box also allows 
the individual soldiers within the 
squad to be arrayed in one of nine 
pre-defined formations. The forma¬ 
tions include Phalanx and Forward, 


Wedge and Wave. A view from die 
top down (rather like a football 
diagram) shows how the squad’s 
various units will align with each 
odicr given the chosen formation. 

Meanwhile, the computer is giv¬ 
ing marching orders to its own 
squads. Eight different computer op¬ 
ponents, from Crazy Ivan through 
Napoleon to the honorable general 
Sun Tzu (author of the original 
“Ancient An of War’’ book), can 
give you various levels of challenge 
to face. 

When opposing squads march 
within battle range of one another— 
the game suddenly takes on a whole 
new dimension, 

ZOOMING IN ON VALOR 

Two squads in opposition begin 
to flash. The player may then hit the 
Zoom Burma atop the strategic map 
screen. When that button is clicked 
the screen clears to an astounding]}- 
detailed tactical display of die battle 
in progress. 

Every soldier in both squads is 
shown in close up, mock three-di¬ 
mensional animation. Knights, 
hunched under the weight of their 
armor, ready their swords; muscular 
barbarians clench brawny fists; and 
the archers draw back on their bows. 

Buttons atop the tactical display 
allow- the player to issue orders to 
die complete squad or to individual 
soldier-types. Clicking on the For¬ 
ward button sends the whole squad 
marching forward. But it is also 
possible, by highlighting smaller “ra¬ 
dio” buttons, to do such things as 
send only your barbarians forward 
and have your archers back off. 

Battles are won or lost depending 
on the orders given here as well as 
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men and die style of formations 
opposing one another. It never, for¬ 
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archers forward into hand to hand 
fighting. It is also necessary to un¬ 
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Forward and Attack commands. 
When issued an Arrack order a loose 
formation will begin to coalesce, 
making it more massive and harder 
to stop but an easier target for 
archers. Many such tactical consider¬ 
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DESIGNER BATTLES 


and more campaigns are played. 

The actual battles are almost eerie 
to watch. Swords swinging, the 
knights march fearlessly into battle. 
Fists flying, barbarians wreak amaz¬ 
ing havoc with bare hands. Arrows 
fly through the air like deadly porcu¬ 
pine quills. All of this action takes 
place with very realistic sound effects 
that are unbelievably true to life. 
Every arrow lias a wmig all its own, 
every fistfall a clunk, every sword a 
whooshing swing. 

Some will certainly find the tacti¬ 
cal display almost too detailed. As 
men are hit they fly a few feet in the 
air, their eyes widen in shock, and 
they crumple to the ground as bro¬ 
ken casualties. After a few moments 
of combat the on-screen battlefield is 
sure to look very much like a real 
one. 

But, though die blood and gore 
arc more realistically portrayed than 
in most games, so are the qualities of 
valor, courage and heroism. I have 
personally watched, cheering out 
loud, as one lone barbarian coura¬ 
geously charged a line of archers 
which had turned all his comrades 
into so much electronic charnel. Ar¬ 
rows flew about him like avatars of 
death and still he advanced. Reach¬ 
ing the line of archers his mighty 
fists dispatched a first hapless war¬ 
rior. Then, like a combination of 
Conan and John Wayne, this little 
3D image moved his way like a grim 
reaper down the entire line. 

When finally this hero raised his 
arm in the salute of the victor, 
mounded about by the cold, broken 
flesh of his adversaries, it was all I 
could do to stop from screaming, 
“You did iri You did it!” 

This movic-likc animation is car¬ 
ried through on all of the tactical 
screens. Whether you’re watching a 
fort (rather like a castle) being be¬ 
sieged, with arrows flying up and 
down from the battlements; squads 
fighting their way across a bridge or 
through a village square—this feel¬ 
ing of participation in events is the 
highest I have yet witnessed, or felt, 
in any game. 

DESIGNING A CAMPAIGN 

Well, as I did almost nothing else 
for two weeks than play the included 


scenarios, I reached a point where 1 
could win all of the battles on the 
disk. 1 then began to experiment 
with the "Game Generator” part of 
the program. I quickly realized that 
this part of the program could make 


The Ancient A n of War that rarest of 
disks—the type that you keep boot¬ 
ing up year after year. 

The first few battles i designed 
were random affairs just to get the 
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MAKING MULTIPLE-CAMPAIGN DISKS 


Editor's Note ■ if you and a friend 
both create scenarios—or you 
download various scenarios or find 
them via your own user group—they 
must usually be played on separate 
disks * For those comfortable with 
FEDIL MacTools or other disk utility 
programs here is a way to collate 
campaigns designed by more than 
one person ail onto one disk . 

When you create an Ancient Art of 
War campaign disk, the game gen¬ 
erator creates two types of fifes. 

The first is the file describing the 
scenario, numbered and titled in 
sequential order from 'TO" thru 
"TB." That's hexadecimal number¬ 
ing for 'Tl" through "112." But it 
only allows eleven scenarios to be 
alive at one time. That's all the 
program has menu space for. 


It also creates a file called "Ti¬ 
tles," The 'Titles" file is where the 
program crossreferences the "T" 
numbers to the scenario name. 

Using the Finder, It's easy to 
rename the 'T f file to another num¬ 
ber. But to edit the "Titles" file 
requires a file editor such as FED1T. 

Since you don't have to create the 
"Titles” fife, you can simply edit 
what you find in it. At minimum the 
file will have one entry, that will be 
the first'T number in sequence. In 
this case, "TO." When adding a 
scenario to the disk, pick the next 
“T f number in sequence that does 
not have a title associated with it, 
in this case "Tl.” 

Jf you look at the "Titles" file that 
comes with the scenario "Flodden 
Field/ this is what you wifi find: 


(ASCfl) 

T0.T1.T2.T3.T4T 
6.T7T8.T9.TATB 
J5..Flodden Fie 
Id - 1513 AD... 


(HEX) 

5430 0054 3100 5432 0054 3300 5434 0054 
3600 5437 0054 3800 5439 0054 4100 5442 
0054 3500 1846 6C6F 6464 656E 2046 6965 
6C64 2020 2D20 3135 3133 2041 4400 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 


All but one of the periods in the 
ASCII translation are HEX code 00. The 
exception is the last character prior to 
the file name. The first file name 
begins at file position 37. Each suc¬ 
ceeding file name will begin 60 char¬ 
acters later. In this case the "TO" file 
begins at position 37, the ’Tl" file 
name will begin at position 97, "T2" at 
157 and so on. 

At the position just prior to the file 
name is a hexadecimal character de¬ 
fining the length of the file name. So, 
just before the M F" in "Flodden Field," 
you find a Hex "18,” But when you 
count it up. the file name is not 18 
characters long, but 24, All file names 
are six (6) characters longer than the 
hex number given. 

For example* to combine two scenar¬ 
ios from MAUG's DL4 ("Flodden Field- 
1513 AD" and "The Battle of Zook T s 


Ford"), throw away the 'Titles" file 
from "The Battle of Zook's Ford" and 
edit the "Titles" file from "Flodden 
Field," 

Rename the "TO" file from "Zook's 
Ford” as "Tl"* Otherwise, when you 
copy it to the same disk as "Flodden 
Field," it will write over the "Flodden 
Field” scenario. 

Then use FED IT and open the "Ti¬ 
tles” file from "Flodden Field" and add 
"Zook's Ford" to it. Go to sector 0 of 
the file and change position 96 to hex 
"19." Then, at position 97, select 
"ASCII Modify” in FED1T and type "The 
Battle of Zook's Ford." Then write the 
sector back to the disk. That tells the 
system that there is a second scenario 
on the disk, its name, and the length 
of the name. 

To add more scenarios, repeat the 
same technique.—Denn/s Mitchell 


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RESOURCES 



By 

Bob 

Perez 


Listen my children and 
you shall hear 
... sounds and 
music with 
Mac and “C” 


ITS A GIVEN THAT A GOOD 
Mac program has great graphics - at 
least, it should. But what about 
sound? The Mac has one of the most 
sophisticated sound generators of 
any microcomputer on the market, 
yet many of its most popular pro¬ 
grams are limited to the basic beeps 
and hoops made by any machine. 
You can get great sound out of your 
Mac. And it's not even that hard. 

Last month 1 presented a program 
that illustrated how you could incor¬ 
porate MacinTolk, Apple’s software 
speech synthesizer, into your own C 
programs. One of the reasons that 
Apple could get away with a soft¬ 
ware-only speech synthesizer is rhat 
the Mac sports some of the most 
sophisticated sound circuitry avail¬ 
able on a personal computer. This 
month we keep to the audio theme 
and present an introduction to the 
Macintosh sound driver in the con¬ 
text of a complete Macintosh appli¬ 
cation. Our supplied program illus¬ 
trates the concept of an event-driven 
environment as it tracks and handles 
the user's menu selections using both 
the mouse and the keyboard. A func¬ 
tion that plays simple, easily altered 
tunes is provided in a format that 
can be easily transported into your 
own applications. 

The Macintosh sound driver is 
built into ROM and consists of three 
independent “synthesizers”: the 
Square-Wave Synthesizer (SWS), 
die Free-Form Synthesizer (FFS) 
and the Four-Tone Synthesizer 
(FTS). 

The FFS is in many ways the most 
complex of the three and is used to 
produce the most lifelike sounds. 
You could, for example, produce die 
sort of voices that MacinTalk utters 
by competent use of this device. 
Game designers use this synthesizer 
to produce the explosions that sound 
when players fire their phasers at the 
aliens, taking advantage of the large, 
complex waveforms allowed by the 
FFS. The program in the listing 
demonstrates the use of the FFS to 
create some simple “white noise,” 
You can alter the waveform in a num¬ 
ber of interesting ways to achieve 
other effects, although you won’t 


APR 


L 1 9 8 6 M A C U S E R 105 










ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY C 

find much in Inside Macintosh to 
guide you. The best bet here is to 
experiment and keep notes. 

The SWS Ls the simplest of the 
three synthesizers and produces the 
same sort of single tone “beeps” that 
you hear when you click the mouse 
outside of a modal dialog box, for 
example. The listing contains a func¬ 
tion called swplayO that accepts as 


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routines using 


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other compilers), 

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* use of fhg x out tiros heroin It pemtitcJ with Copyright 

notice intact. 

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long phdiul; 


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long phase3; 


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char ‘travel; 



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short coda; 


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shots mode; 


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long count; 


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char vaVe|?S6|; 


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RppervdKenu (fnyrwtnua 131 ^IPPiry a From Focn Mclse/H; (“jHalt Sound/H w l; 

Parflflimr (pbu fpb? r rpW* spa* ft pc; 

struct ftune -aytuhbl* % »ytunaZ,*aytMn»J; 


/* 

St r uct aynt hrec * oyr *c 1. * iryre c2, * ayra c.3; 


# insert the dor inod nonbi into our oronubaF, then dree thu aenubai * 

Mind 


for U -Of i < HUHHEKUSl >*i| 

t 


1 1 n a o rt Me h u (nystnii ■ [ 11 , C ]; 

/* 


DtaaMenuSarll; 

4 Sot up everything. 

■/ 



inletj; 


f m 

* Set. Up a simple* triangular wave shape for* for Four Cone Synthesiser 

• j 

/■ 


for U • 0, h * n«* j * Of i « ilf +*i* h — 21 

* Fail into cur event loop. 

-/ 


vave()**l - (BytuFh; 

iiViJnL [ f I 


for (1 * 0* h - 755; 1 < 178; **i* h 2\ 


its sole parameter the address of an 
array containing the notes making 
up a tune. At the end of the listing is 
a sample array that is used to feed 
swplayO* Using the information 
contained in the Sound Manager 
section of Inside Macintosh, it's a 
simple matter to create your own 
nines and incorporate swplay(} intt) 
your own programs. 


One of the things you'll notice 
when you consult the Sound Manag¬ 
er manual is that I didn't use the 
standard data structures. Why not? 1 
find that in this case it's a bit tedious 
to have to fill in a bunch of prede¬ 
fined labels for each part of each 
note for an entire tune. Since each 
element in a SWSy nth Record is ei¬ 
ther an int or made up of ints, I 


106 MACUSER APR 


L 19 8 6 










found it much easier to create a 
single array of incs made up of aU the 
values necessary to create a tune and 
then pass this array to the sound 
driver as though it were a SWSynth- 
Record structure. 

This illustrates a point about C 
structures, by the way. When youVe 
got a struct made up of ints or longs, 
each successive member follows the 


preceding member directly in memo¬ 
ry. To use the SWSynthRecord as an 
example (sec page 7 of die Sound 
Manager manual), the “count” mem¬ 
ber appears in memory directly after 
the “mode” member. This is so even 
though “count” is a member itself of 
yet another structure containtcd 
within SWSynthRecord; structs do 
not take up any memory at all them¬ 


selves—only their dements occupy 
space. To improve readability you 
can indent at your pleasure (as I have 
done) when you initialize an array 
that’s substituting for a struct. In my 
example, I start off with the 1 mode’ 
value, then follow with a series of 
groups of 3 in ts, representing the 
“count,” “amplitude”, and “dura¬ 
tion” fields in the “triplets” struc- 



- tBytalh; 


for (i «■ 0, Tv * 0/ 1 < Mr **i, h 2j 
vavefj++) - (Bytelh; 

/* 

* Hori, cr**U a randOra Free Farm wave, using the rendfraei l| J function. The 

* waveform we cr«Jt* generate* simple white nolle. Y&U ctn diddle with 

* the waveforn to create mare Interesting effect*. An Increasingly narrow 

* range of random note* along the wave for a will create decaying white 
4 nolle, for exanple, 

•/ 

for i i • o, j - as if l < FFsrzE.,- *+ii 
icyff .fwavali] ■ nnfroad, jj; 

/ p 

* Initial ire our pointer a and allocate storage for our parameter block* 

* and synthesizer records. Than, initialize the various sound records. 

*/ 

tpbl - {ParnHUPtM NevFtrUlongl slinaM Struct Pa tasiaikRee)} 

I[)b2 - t Par «B1 fcFfc r ) NevPtri (long) si zee f | struct PsrarBlkRec) J j 
fpbl - fPar.-naikjJtrUSovPTir < (long) siroof [Struct ParamSlkRec) ) ; 
a pb - e p at abI k Pt r ) New? 1 1 (f long Mi e« o f f at ruct ParanB lk doc! > j 
frpij - iFaxnBlkPtrlNevFcr ( aor.gUiicof (struct froefotm)|i 
mytunni - I struct ftune *)WjwPtr < (long)*iteof (struct ftunem 
fflytUnoF - (struct (tune *]BcwPtr((long)siroof|struct ftunal); 
nyturibS - (Struct ftune ‘jKewPcrUlongMlxoof (struct rtunom 
myrael - (struct e^athree *) NevPtr ((longMUenf (struct tynthrec) |: 
eyzac2 - tstruct synthrec *)Sc*?tr((long)airoof\■tcuct synthrec]>; 

■yr#t3 - (Struct syathrac ■] KewFtr ((long) lllcOf (Struct synChroc]); 


■ Those rata values produce a c os jar Chord per the Sound Manager ranual 
* of inside Macintosh, pp 20-72, Four Tone Synthoalter. 

■/ 

myt'jnol->rato 1 • Ox3Q25D; /■ Kiddle C *f 
n.ytunol->ratoJ - Ox3cD3T; /- £ */ 
eyiuneWracoJ - Ox4BZ4); /■ G */ 

*ytunei->rsto4 * 0x«94B»; /* c */ 


* Those rate values produce a simple Interval for demonstrating the phase 

* shifting affect. Four Tone Synthesizer. 

V 

nytune2->rat:ol *> 0X33.Q3D; /* C< ftbovo middle C */ 
mytuae2->rate2 “ 0x3303Of 

mytungj—>rate3 - Oxttt’Jb,- /+ Cl above middle C */ 
r.ytufle2-»rat04 - Qx4CGDD; 


■ These rate values produce a C minor chord. Four Tune Synthesizer, 

-/ 

mytune3“>ratal - 0x30250; /* Middle C */ 

«ytU^o3->ratc2 ** 0x33430; /• 01 *f 
mytuno3->tate3 - 0x40241; /* C 
mytuno»rate4 * OxtCupS; c *f 


* Standard phase values for the C chords. Four Tone synthesiser* 

p / 

mytunel-kphasel - aytune3->phaiel - ow 
mytunel->phss*2 ■ mytune3->phase2 * Oh; 
ir.yt uno 1 - > ph a so3 * mytUne 3 - >phs se3 - 0L; 
nyturiol-^phaSoS “ myCune3^>phsae4 - OLi 


* Not so standard for the second tone. Playing around with phase valuta 

* creates interesting affects by causing the sound driver to start at a 

* point along the wavefern other than the beginning Etcpresented by 

* hyte|fl| of tho wave array). For this second tone, va alter the phaat 

■ of the two simultaneously executing notes to illustrate "phase shlf-'-.g" 

* This la a special effect commonly used in recording studios to give a 

* "ilimi Hendrix> sound tg electric guitars, etc. Four Tor.a Synthesiser. 


nyt u no 2->p h a s e1 - 193L* 
ny t u no J->pha s*2 * 311; 
(nytune2->phaso3 - C1L; 
»ytuna2->phaso4 * 12?L; 


* For this example, ail Four Tone waveforms are tho 10 BQ* You could 

* have different w&vafotft* for each voice, if desired, end can even 

* change then in the diddle of a tune. Four Tone Synthesiser* 

*/ 

sycuntl-Tvavel - isytunel->wave7 - mytunel^vaVaJ - mytonel->vave4 - wave; 

MyttineZ-leave! “ syctngl->sivgl - sytuneZ->waves “ mytune2-Wave4 - wave; 

nytuns3-»vsv«I - hytund3->wave7 “ ryture3->wave3 ■ mytunel-^wave4 - wave; 


"Sot UP the synth .records for the Four Tone Synthesizer, 

V 

myrecl">«da - nyrec2->eoda - mytec3->mode - fcHOduJ 
niyr*cl->sndpec * eytunoi; 

Myr*c2->ind3ec “ pytunoJ; 
iiyr ec3-> sndRec ' - mytu no 1 ; 


* initialize tho Free Form Synthesizer struct. 

*/ 

myff.nodo ■ EfHodo; 
eyff.count - gxfidic; 

/* 

m Clear the ioftosuit field of each picincar block so we don't have any 
4 Stray Values in there that make it appear that sound's executing. 

*/ 

SpboLdResUlt “ Cptal->loResult « f pb2->ioRusult - fpb3->lcResult ** 0; 
frpb->ioRosuit - 0; 

1 l m end of initll “/ 


■ The event loop, focal point of most Macintosh applications. 
V 

eventn 

EVontRecord er; 

WindoWRt i wpt r ; 
short wpart; 


* Set up an 'infinite 1 loop to process events 
V 

While (FOREVER) ( 

* Call SyateaTask for any doak accessories that might bo active. Then, 
■ uu Gat Next Event to handle only our events. 

*/ 

SystemTask0f 

if (iCatNextEvent(cveryEvent,**r)| 
continue; 

switch(er.what) ( 

case mouaeOown; 

f* 

* Find out Where the mouse was clicked, 

*/ 

Wpa r t - FindNIndow[pass[a r,wha re), £wpt r )f 


* Nov check wpart to aeo if the click was in e menu or In a desk 
4 accessory window. If in a menu, send the information off to 

* do_Aenu|| for processing. 

v 

switch(wpert) { 


APRIL 1983 M A C U S E R 107 








ONE IF BY LAND. TWO IF BY C 



ture. By referring to my copy of the 

systems include their own versions 

with any of the compilers also as¬ 

Sound Manager manual, I can quick- 

of these high-level routines, and Az- 

sures that youll be able to compile 

ly and easily create new tunes. 

tec C is no exception. Some compil- 

and run the program. The Sound 

Another thing you’ll notice is that 

ers, however (Consulair’s, for exam- 

Manager manual contains ail of the 

I didn’t call StartSoundQ, Stop- 

pie), do not provide these routines 

necessary information for you to be 

SoundQ, or SoundDoncQ anywhere 

and, in any case. 

writing your own 

able to do this from C or assembly 

in the program. None of these rou- 

version of such 

a routine provides 

language. 

tines appears in ROM even diough 

you with a deeper understanding of 

The FTS is the most difficult of 

they’re documented in Inside Marin- 

the entire I/O 

process. Creating 

the three to program, but mastery of 

tosh. Most of the better development 

these routines from tools available 

this synthesizer will mark you as a 

SON OF LISTING 

c*i* InKem/Bar: 


«vpUy((*wtun*lOM; / 

* Th* Squir# Nave Synch**it *1 */ 

d<s jwmUKestl5*l*et (pa i * f*r, Wh*r* \ i ) J 


break/ 


bretk/ 


cam 2 [ 


caia inSysWlndOVI 


fourplayd; /* Th* ! 

Four Tana Synth*sliar */ 

Sy*tucsClick{ior, wptr] j /* Go handle desk accessory click */ 

break; 


break/ 


eaia Jj 


d*f*uit; 


f rasplay [ 1 / /* Th* Fra* For* Synthtsiitr */ 

break; 


br«ak; 


hltomkt 


leiiliPti j /* Kill 

th* currantly executing sound »/ 



break; 


/* 


default 1 


* The o/i ly kayDovn events wo handle are coe-mand key pros;**. 

braak/ 

] 


case k*yDawn» 




if (or.modifieri t e/ndKcy) 




dojion u (Ker.u Key (J cha t ) c r . re i *49 e i c h a rC odcHa skit? 

break; 


break; 


default: 


f 


break/ 

) 


' in case of other events coni fig Through, dequeue then and continue. 



*/ 


HlIicaKanu (01 / 


default; 




continue ,9 


I /* and of do_n;anu (1 */ 


> /* end of nain event switch */ 


/* 


> /■ end of while(FOft£VgRt loop */ 


* The function fourplayO calls turns an th* Tbuy Ten* Synthasliar to play 



* On* of two chords. 


I /* end of event 1] */ 






{outplay{) 


dp_faonclPro»ult> 


l 


unsigned long 


short which; 


t 


Para&lkPtr pb/ 


extern int *wtun*[], about[]/ 


struct ftuna *aytuna; 


register short the Item, tha**ftu/ 


struct synthrac *nyr*c/ 


short err; 




char pa**(296Lj 


/* 




* Start by 1 randomly* 

sal*ctlng tha first or th* itcond chard. Than* 

thtvanu - rresult » It; 


* Initialit* th* pointers tc paint te th* appropriate structural. 

t her ten •< *result/ 


*/ 




which - ranfroaa* 3J; 


•witch(thenenu} { 


■witch (which* E 


Came APFLEMEtttli 


cast Is 


if {theiten < 31 


pb - fpbl? 


swploy {tab-out TO 1) f 


aytun* - nytunal; 


visa £ 


isyrec - myracl; 


/* 


break/ 


* The Desk Manager portion of Inside Macintosh details s pethod 

CA>* 2: 


* for siring 4 desk accessory about to be opened. In real 

pb - fpbi; 


* applications you'd use that method to 

Inaura enough nwory 

mytuna - i»ytun*2/ 


* available before attempting the open. 

5-inco Apple raccpmend* 

ayrec ■ isyrocJ; 


* that accessories not be any bigger than 9K. here we simply 

break/ 


* check for 8K available and if it 1 * net 

th*E*. W* hasp and 

cam* 3; 


* ignore the Open request* 


d*fsuit: 


*/ 


pta - fpul/ 


Get l ten tEsynenh ■ 101, t he it aa , name); 


rytuna - nytun*3/ 


RfsrpHMftmU; 


nyrec - myrac3; 


if ((err - HeaCrrorl)) -- noErrj 


br*ak/ 


DpenO«akhcc(na»o]/ 


i 


Sy 9 Heap(1 )f 


t* 


) 


’ Sat up tha paran black. Sine* wa'r* only using on* buffer far *ach 

break; 


* chard, wa won't allow quaualng of raquaits. ft th* particular chord to 

case f I Lf.HEN’J : 


• bfl played Is siready *sacuting, w*“ll return without activating a now 

bye C |i 


- request to writ*. This isn't a ptoblem in r*al applications wh*ra 

break; 


* you've typically gat 

■ sparse,* buffer* fat sapent* writ* ciqJatt). 

case ERITHF.H'J: 


- In such cases, having separata buffers allows you to modify on* while 

SyitsaEdit Itheltem. -If / /* send edit icos command to desk acc*>mry */ 

4 the other's being written, thuj avoiding a stacato effect each time a 

break/ 


* new ton* i* sounded. 


case OPTICKSKmi: 


*/ 


switch(theitea) ( 


If (pb->icRasult > o* 


case If 


return; 



108 MACUSER A PRIL 1986 











true Mac sound pro. There’s no limir 
to the intricate four-part harmonics 
you can conjure up with this one, so 
it’s no surprise that most of the 
music programs on the market uti¬ 
lize the FTS, The sample program 
demonstrates a simple chord genera¬ 
tion and phase shifting experiment. 
Play around with the values using 
Inside Macintosh as your reference 


point and read my comments in the 
listing, 

SOME GENERAL COMMENTS 

Note the use of register variables 
in the program. Most compilers that 
provide register variables only allo¬ 
cate a few (Aztec provides four data 
and two address), so be judicious in 
your use of these turbo-variables. 


Whenever you’ve got a loop that 
counts down a variable, a register 
variable should generally be used. 
Also, note my placement of the reg¬ 
ister declarations. Since a register 
declaration is really just a “hint” to 
the compiler and will only result in 
an actual register allocation if a regis¬ 
ter is available, prioritize multiple 
register declarations so that the ones 



* The** structure* *r# used if* Artec C to umlaut the pascal EO blocks 
¥ documented In the File Manager nanusI of Inside Macintosh. Other 

* compilers will vary ltnnhtt. For example, Artec uses union* where#* 

* consolslr us#* separate struct* for each type or id block. The ultimate 

p field manes: are the nsff, however, and are identical to Chose documented 

* tfl Inside Macintosh. 

V 

pb->i©Completion - NIL; 
pb->U.i*p.,ioKu£NU:Ji - '4; 
pb“>u. iop.iosuftor ~ ayree; 

pb->y, iop..! Bfi#qCou«t “ lleng}si leaf(struct synthree} / 


* Sot up tho duration for this particular call by assigning a valuu based 
■ on 60 f Lh* of A second. In this example, the C Chords last 1 1/2 seconds 

* while the phase shifting example lasts 5 Seconds, 


nytitnal-duration - 
reytuno!->du ration * 300; 

5nytune3->duraE; ion ■ SO; 


Now, write the buffer to the sound driver With an asynchronous call 


PBKrito (pb, IRL'E); 

i /* end of {outplay(} *f 

ivplay(theturo) 
int *thetune; 
l 

f* 

■ Bat up the parameter block for the square wave call. Note that We pass 

■ an arbitrarily long Value to thi ioPeqCount field since the sound driver 
' Will stop outputting sound in any case when it got* to the 3 zeroes 

* at the end of the synth record* For this example, again, wo won H t 

* allow queueing requests * The synthirecard whoso address i« passed to 

* this function appears at the and of the listing in tho form Of an array 

* ndrad swLUriO(f. 

V 

if (spb->iortoiult > oi 
return; 

spb->iocoapletion - NIL; 
spb->u, lop. ioSef Hum • *4; 
apb->u.iop„1o3uffar - thetune; 
apb->u.iop,iOKeqCOunt - 1000 03 Lj 

F&tfriteupb.rfiUSif 

i /■ end of swplayt) */ 

fraeplaytl 

i 

/* 

* Set up the pararotor block for the Ff#a Fora call, for this example, 

■ again, we won’t allow queueing requests. 

•/ 

if |Efpb->loRo*uVt. > 3] 
roturn; 

t fph-?icCorplotion - NIL; 
ffpb-su.lop.io5to!NU£ * *(J 
ffpb->u.lop.ioBuffer * tryff; 

ffpb->u,lop,ioRaqCount - [ long) s 1 mof I struct freeform!; 

P&Write(ffpb,TRUE}; 


J /* end ot swplayl) 


* The function killioO shuts off the sound driver after checking to See if 

* there's actually any sound buiftg produced. As wo did in both of the sound 

* functions, we poll the iohesult field to *#* it a write request is in 

* progress. This field Will remain positive am long as a write request ll 
■ executing fi.e„, sound 1* being produced}, 

V 

kill Ltd 
! 

if (fpbl->ioRosult > 0) 

PBJflll 10 [fpbl * TRUE); 
if tfph2->toPesult s 0) 

FBKilllO [ f pt)3, THL’E) ; 
if Ifpb3~>lcResui£ > 0) 

FBKilllO t fpb3,TRUE); 
if {spb->ioResult > Q); 

FBKilllO<spb,TRUE); 

IE (ffpb->ioRoiult > 0}? 

FBKilllOIf£pb,TRUE ]1 

1 t - end of l(Ililo{} •/ 


" ran Ere®0 return* a pseudo-random integer between two positive integers. 
* The function expects two positive integer arguments, low and high. The 
1 returned integer should fall ’randomly r between low and high. Inclusive. 
*7 

ran(roral Ecu, high) 

register unsigned short low, high; 


register unsigned short range; 


range - high - low + 1; 

return I aba (RandomU ) I range * lew); 


} /* end of rahfroad */ 


p abs El takes a signed integer and return* its absolute value. We’v* provided 

* it here since the Toolbox Randomf) function returns negative values as w«l 1 

* as positive. Sent# compilers offer this a* a utility sacra in stdlo.h 
V 

abs Cnur) 
short nuttj 
t 

return nux. < C7 - nuininur:; 

} /* end of abs (| *f 


* It's generally a good idea to have one function to handle program! ns Its. 

* Many applications will contain =*0r# than one pppertunity re exit. 

■ By having each such location call a single exit function, you Can avoid 

* duplication of exit clean-up code, a* v«n as providing assurance of a 

* uni form exit approach In all cases. 

bye 11 

\ 

f* 

p Before wo quit, w* chock to SCO it wo left a tune playing. IE so. we 

* shut if off before exiting. 

•/ 

killiolJf 


(ii*pc*e of allocated storage, fhi* isn’t actually required since upon 
termination of our pregram all Soap space used will be returned to tho 
available pgol of nem.ory. Still, roeerbering to deallocate monory that 
you’ve spacifically allocated is a good habit to got into and is done 
hero for illustration purposes. Eliminate these calls if you'd like. 


APRI L 1986 MACU5ER 109 








ONE IF BY LAND. TWO IF BY C 


you want the most arc declared first, integer between i and n, whereas 
That way, if the compiler runs out of the ToolBox Random() returns a 
registers, you'll have your most im- signed integer between -32768 and 
portant variables covered. 32767. To get around this, I've 

The sample program uses the written the function randfrom() 
Tool Box Random () function in a which takes two positi ve integers as 
couple of places and fve included input and returns a pseudo-random 
some utility functions to use with it, integer within the range cncom- 
1 When Pm in the mood for random passed by supplied integers. You 
numbers Pm usually looking for an just can't get true randomness front a 

computer and most so-called ran¬ 
dom number generators are really 
pseudo-random. The effect is close 
enough for our purposes. 

Pve also provided an absf) func¬ 
tion which simply returns the abso¬ 
lute value of a given integer. Using 
abs() within randfrom() assures that 
the numbers returned by Random{) 
will all be positive. fj| 

THE END OF A LISTING 


*/ 

74*. 3 5* 7. 


1,25,1, 

DiipevPtrifpfe&M 

744,25,7. 

DiiposPLr: 

1.25,1. 

QiipeiFtr[spbJ: 

749.25,7, 

DlipaiPtr[ffp&fj 

1.25.1, 

DlSpCiPtf |*ytUfl*l) : 

DLapojPtf tsyrcciu 

749,25,36. 

t?i sposPtr ieytuwJl t 

DiipcaPtr (Tyrant • 

1,35,A. 

DiipsiPtrlaytun*}); 

1899,23,14, 

Di jpo*Pc r <Tyrirc3 1 : 

18*7,25.6. 

1711,35,12. 

EuLtT&iJwUli/ 

1617.35,6, 

1999.35.18. 

i t* end of hyen */ 

1867,25,6, 

1761,35.18. 

/■ 

1687.25. E, 

• fullering driAys cental Ft Ctifl dnacrlpLive tnf ars’at ltw 

1999,25. *. 

■ t?io aqvar* ay/itKosltor, Sfl careful in Croat lciq/edit 1 ft-) liet", a 

1,21.1. 

■ typo cin idnd uauaUy villi ,pnd your Kac out voit. Although the following 

1234,75.7, 

■ tokos up apace, it 1 a eaiier to ViiyoLit the 1 of uch note 

1,25,1. 

■ Ifr^joncy, arplltudc, and duration] this way. See pages 20*J3 of tti* Sutind 

1334,25,7, 

* Manager portion of Ir.iido Haetfiteah for translation of ifwcific netrt into 

1.35.1, 

* frequency values, 

> f 

1334,23.3D, 

tot about 11 ■* t awHodfi, /*■ ritit entry la always fchla conatant ■/ 

1,35,8, 

74^,35, 14, 

19*9,25.14, 

999.25, E, 

1987.73.6. 

1.7^1. 

176],75,12, 

9*9, 75.7, 

18*7.23,6, 

890*25,14, 

1999,75,3a, 

999,75.14, 

1817.25,6, 

1,25, 14, 

17*1,35,10, 

793,25,13, 

1887,35,6, 

1.25.2, 

1989,25,9, 

US, 25,1*, 

1.23,1, 

0*0,0 

1189,25, 7, 

it, 

1.75,1, 

1189,25,7, 

int avtunoH “ f tttltoda, 

594,35,14, 

1.25,1, 

1169,25,30, 

1,25,1, 

<67.35.6, 

1,35,6. 

748.25,8, 

594,25*14, 

607,73.Ef. 

1.25*1 

=94,25,8, 

487,25,8, 

630,25.0, 

749,23,0, 

384,35. ** 

467*23,0. 

74 9.25,8, 

594,25.8. 

661.25, 7, 

130.25,0, 

994,23,8, 

1.75,1. 

749,73,0, 

667.25*7, 

*67,73,7. 

1,25,1. 

1.25.1. 

667,25.7. 

667.73.7, 

1.25.1. 

1,33,1, 

667.25.3S, 

<67,25*7, 

1.25,1. 

1*25,8, 

<67, 75. 37, 

667.25,14. 

1,25,1. 

1,25,12, 

749.35,6. 

667,35,10, 

7*3,35,8, 

1,35,1. 

7 49,25, 0. 

944.25*1* 

667,25,8, 

191.33. 6, 

757,25,6, 

467,35,37. 

667,25.8, 

594,25,14, 

7*3,25,0, 

500,33.20, 

0. 0.0 it 


110MACUSER APRIL 19 86 










Hie MacServe Theory of Networking. 




productivity increases as you 
share applications and docu¬ 
ments with MacServe, over 
PHL. AppleTalk,™ securely, 
quickly, and efficiently, 

It may take days to appreciate 
little things like not having 
to wait to use (ix j printer. With 
MacServe is print spooler, you 
and others can share a serial 
printer and still get back to 
work sooner. 

S Weeks, or months, 
later when you 

expand your network, you will 
recognize die long-term bene¬ 
fits of MacServe. Add disks 


p=ji and printers to your 

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things done faster, more efficiently, or more 
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are yon waiting for? Get out those programs 
and start hunting hints 7 

MACWRFTE 

Do you create a lot of documents 
1 with specific page setup require¬ 
ments? Save a lot of rime and duplicated 
effort by creating a reusable template for 
each non-default page setup you use 
often* Once you’ve set the format for 
page size, starting font* margins, spacing 
and headers and footers, save it as an 
independent document named for rhe 
function you'll use it for (as in “Invoice 
Standard”). The next time you'll need to 
use that format, just open the document 
and type away* Remember to SAVE AS ... 
instead of just SAVE, though, which will 
create a new file for your letter without 
corrupting vour original template. You 
can extend this idea even ftirther to keep 
personalized letterheads on file as well* 

Those special icons in headers and 
footers, like the date, time and 
page number icons, don't change font 
and style unless they're highlighted. You 
can change the fonts and styles these 
items are displayed in relatively easily. 
One technique is to click at the very' 
beginning of the header or footer win¬ 
dow, then select the desired font and 
style from the Style menu. 


way of changing a whole 
footer (including the icon- 
ms) is to first be sure the 
with a carriage return* Then 
iC end, move to the beginning, 
SHIFT while clicking the mouse 
Now, change to your heart’s 

can even mix fonts and font styles 
ecu icon-driven and text entries in 
window by following the first pro- 
cdurc above, then typing a space before 
setting the text’s font and style. Al¬ 
though different bits of text in a header 
or footer can be displayed (and printed) 
in different fonts, the text produced by 
the icons all share the same fonts and 
style* 

While you can’t place text next to 
pictures in Mae Write, you can 
move* the special icons in the header and 
footer windows on top of any pasted 
graphics. The text these icons create will 
appear on your images. 

FONT/DA MOVER 

nn When using the Font!DA Mover ; 

most people hit the OPEN button 
to access the system of another disk. If 
you stick a disk into the drive while the 
Font IDA Mover is open, it automatically 
opens the system of the disk placed in the 
drive* 

V~x\ To install a font or desk accessory 
into an application, hold down the 
OPTION key when clicking OPEN*..* 
You’ll get a choice of all files, not just 
Systems and DA files. And you can 
install a font or DA into any application. 
Why would you want to? Maybe vou 
need a foreign language font only in 
your word processor and some fancy 
display fonts only in MacPaint * By in¬ 
stalling these fonts directly into the ap¬ 
plications you’ll be using them with, you 
can be sure of keeping the fonts and 
applications together when you move 
the applications to other disks with dif¬ 
ferent systems. 

MACDRAW 

Hold down the COMMAND key 
while pressing the mouse button, 
and the last tool used will automatically 
be selected. This avoids the constant 
annoyance of having to rcsclcet the same 
tool again and again. 

Do you need an unusually sized font? 
Create your text in MaeDraw, then copy 
it into Microsoft Word, where it can be 
stretched to any size you want. The best 


news of all is, it prints out perfectly on 
the LaserWriter* (Printing doesn’t work 
as well on die ImageWriter*) 

Steve Mailer , San Francis to y CA 

MACPASCAL 


Run two or more programs in a 
Dffl l row by selecting them on the 
desktop and then choosing open from 
the File menu. If an ImageWriter is 
attached and running, you’ll also get a 
log of the activities performed. 


Cr tgr j For quick and dirty debugging, 
rxyl select a program on the desktop 
and then choose OPEN from die File 
menu. Be sure your ImageWriter is 
turned on* If you make any errors, both 
the MacPascal error messages and the 
statement where the error occurred will 
be printed out in hard copy* 

MICROSOFT WORD 

In Word , any type in 5, 6 and 7 
point sizes will look best if it’s 
printed in high quality, since the Mac 
scales existing 10, 12 or 14 point fonts 
down to half size* Be sure die larger sizes 
arc in the System or in Word before 
trying this trick* 

The bunons in the dialog boxes all 
respond to COMMAND keys, with 
the COMMAND key and another key 
pressed at the same time. Among the 
commands that work: COMMAND D 
switches disk drives; COMMAND E ejects 
a disk; COMMAND PERIOD cancels a 
command. 

Questions such as “Save changes be¬ 
fore closing?”* can be answered in several 
wavs* You can dick,on the button dis¬ 
playing the answer you want, or hit 
RETURN to select the box with the 
heavier border, or press Y for “Yes, save 
it,” or N for “No*” 

Want to scale a graphic in Word? 
Press COMMAND, SHIFT and Y to¬ 
gether, then choose a number (from 0-9) 
to scale down a graphic to the number’s 
corresponding size. Experiment with this 
to see which sizes work best for your 
purposes* 

Stav Mailer, San Francisco, CA 

FINDER 

0 You can work with the little mini 
icons that appear when you select 
a desktop display other than standard 
icon format (such as name, size, date, 
etc.) just as though they were regular 


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icons. Double click to open them, and 
move and copy them just like you would 
with full-size icons. 


ED 


Does the typeface on your desktop 
look 4 Svrong”? There arc several 
possibilities that explain what might 
have happened, especially if you Ye not 
the only one who uses that Mac. The 
default font might have been changed by 
one of the noncommercial programs de¬ 
signed to do exactly that, such as die 
Change Application Font desk accessory' 
and application (two different programs) 
or PRAM2 from the Boston Computer 
Society. AH of these programs arc avail¬ 
able from users 3 groups and through 
BBSs and on*line services like The 
Source, Delphi and CompuServe. 

The best solution in this case is to 
remove the Mac’s battery' for at least 30 
seconds (remember to reset the date and 
time when you restart). 

If that doesnY work, ids possible that 
the System has been modified and one or 
more of the “unremovable” fonts was 
indeed removed. If you suspect this is 
the case (have any friends who tend to 
like practical jokes?), try starting up with 
another disk containing a System you 
know is complete. Any System on a 
commercially sold disk is fine for this 
purpose. 

The last possibility is that the battery 


Mere we show the complete Key 
Caps for the Cairo font. Upper 
case characters are at the right, 
tower case characters am shown 
below. At the far right are special 
characters entered with the shown 
key combinations. 


has tailed. In this case, a new battery will 
solve what ails you. 

MACPAINT 

To print a catalog (using the 
PRINT CATALOG command) of 
MacPaint documents on a disk other 
than the one your application is on, first 
open any MacPaint document on die 
disk you want to catalog. Now, just 
choose print CATALOG from the File 
menu. 

Get ultra bo Id MacPaint letters by 
i entering your text in BOLD and 
outline from the Style menu. Then use 
the FILL option to give letters a shaded 
effect. 

RESOURCE EDITOR 

This is a dangerous tool! Be sure to only 
work on a backup copy. Never use this tool on 
ytmr only copy of anything, or one day yoipll 
be very sorry! 


When opening a resource, hold 
H down the OPTION and SHIFT keys. 
You'll get a dialog box that lets you open 
any resource as though it was another 
resource type. This feature is particularly 
useful for examining version resources. 


Open them as STR resources and instead 
of seeing hex data, you'll usually sec an 
English language string. That string 
ty pically contains version numbers and 
things like that, bur it can contain any- 
diing. Just ty pe into the box to add to or 
change the text already there. 

MacPaint features a private font 
simply called 12. Among other 
things, this font contains the sizes of 
paint brush tools. They can be edited just 
like any font using Resource Editor** built- 
in tools. To edit this font, open Mac¬ 
Paint while m Resource Editor, scroll to 
the FONT resources, double click to 
open that, and then doublc-dick on 12, 
You can scroll along the font in die large 
window and edit to the left of the box. 
The brush shapes are towards the end of 
die font. The largest square brush shape 
is also used as die eraser too! shape, so 
modifying it will modify' both die brush 
shapes and the eraser. As vou dose 
down, save whenever you’re asked to. 

If you’re haxing trouble cutting 
resources, ifs probably because 
die Clipboard is filling up. When you 
CUT, everything moves to the Clipboard, 
while when you CLEAR, the data just 
disappears, CUTS can be undone, but 
CLEARS are final—you canY UNDO them 
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that his and hers clothing expenses 
could be subtotaled, 

John pointed our, however, that 
they would need a long list of ID 
Codes to create ail of the subcate- 
gorics they needed for taxes and 
interest, and they would still not be 
able to identify categories by two ID 
Codes. For example, John wanted to 
be able to get a total of Sally's FICA 
or his. Worst of all, they found that 
die SPLIT transactions option did 


not each have its own ID Code, and 
so the Marshes were back to square 
one again. 

After the entire situation was ana¬ 
lyzed thoroughly, they decided that 
creating separate categories p for each 
major tax category was the only 
option that met their needs. 

REPRESENTING TAXATION 

John and Sally wanted a running 
total of the amount of taxes they had 
paid from ail income sources. The 
task of keeping track of withholding 



Pick your own category, then choose te Type from among 
the menu Hems. 

taxes and other deductions does not 
match any of HAtllac's features ex¬ 
actly and requires a bit of “fudging.” 


First, the Marshes created categories 
for Taxes—FICA, Taxes—Federal, 
and so on. Then, using each pay 
stub, they treated the total amount 
of money withheld as a Cash Ac¬ 
count Deposit, After entering the 
deposit as the total amount of the 
deductions, each deduction was en¬ 
tered as a cash transaction. They 
used ID codes to indicate which of 
them had earned the money. 

SPLITTING HAIRS 
[AND TRANSACTIONS] 

The most important aspect of pre¬ 
planning is identifying those transact 
tions belonging to more than one 
category (called SPLIT transactions) 
such as paychecks, deposits and loan 
payments. Since the bank hadn't 
provided them with amortization ta¬ 
bles for either the mortgage payment 
or their car payment, the Marshes 
used the HAMac loan planning 
menu to print them out. Here again, 
the Marshes wanted an “exact” 
amount. HAMac could tell them 


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der of their monthly payment was 
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bank pur in escrow. 

When they enter the mortgage 
payment check each mouth, they 
check the SPLIT box and enter four 
categories and amounts: Loan- 
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memos on SPLIT transactions, nor 
does it allow for ID codes. 

PLANNING FOR FUTURE GOALS 

Eva Donovan, a single profession¬ 
al, wants to buy a condominium. 
She has her eve on one that is selling 
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$10,000 will cover her down pay¬ 
ment, dosing costs, and a little bit of 
decorating. Eva’s question is “How 
much must I save each month to buy 
the eon do in one year* Or in two 
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JACK'S GOAL: NO CAR PAYMENT 

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THE HELP FOLDER 


ANSWERS 
FROM THE 
MAC TEAM 

by Dan Cochran 

Got a Mac problem? Something that 
you'd like explained' Something you can't 
find the answer for anpvhcre else? Apple's 
Dan Cochran will answer your questions 
every month in this space , When the ques¬ 
tions are too tough for him. he'll get the 
answers from other members of the Mae 
ream. So ask what you need to know and get 
your ansiven straight from the source! 

Send your questions to Dan care of 
MacUser, 25 West 30 th Street p New 
York, NY 10018. Dan will read all of your 
questions, but , unfortunately, he may not be 
able to answer individual qtu nes. Watch 
this space for the pick of each month's Q & 
A crop. 


I tltink Fve found a bug in the 
Tool Box, It seems that a call to die 
barManager with the constant 
draught Guinness insists on returning 
germ an Import, Seems to get stuck in a 
loop for about 36 times. Inside Macin¬ 
tosh doesn’t shed any light on this 
problem. Any advice? 

Doyle B, Myers 

San Jose, CA 

The first thing to do is to increment 
hopCount before catling barManager. If 
your barManager call is in a loop make 
sure that your increment procedure is 
outside of the loop or vou’re likely to 
have additional problems. Also make 
sure that foam Volume (usually set by the 
user via the control panel and usually nor 
of concern to application programs) 
hasn't been tampered with by another 
application or desk accessory. Thanks to 
Bryan Steams and Jim Friedlandcr of 
Macintosh Technical Support for their 
advice on this subject. Cheers! 


Why is it that when I add new fonts 
to my System flic, they no longer 
appear in alphabetical order within the 
font menu? Is there any way to man¬ 
ually fix tiic listing? 

Bruce E, Sclzler 
Redlands, CA 




The best way to fix your problem is to 
rush right out and buy a Macintosh Plus 
or a Macintosh Plus upgrade for your 
current machine. The original 128K and 
5I2K Macintoshes listed the fonts in the 
reverse order of the sequence in which 
they were added to die System file. The 
new Resource Manager that's pan and 
parcel of the Macintosh Plus will auto¬ 
matically alphabetize not only the font 
menu but the desk accessory menu as 
well. Another neat feature of the new 
Macintosh Plus is its scrollable font 
menu. If you've ever tried to have more 
than 20 fonts displayed in a font menu 
you’ll know what I mean. They were 
there, you knew, you put them in and 
sou could see diem {in Font!DA Alover 
or ResEdit). But you couldn’t use them. 

While we Ye on the subject of fonts the 
ncvs' Key Caps desk accessory allows you 
to see wlut each and every font looks 
like, not just Chicago! And a new menu 
item jets you see what’s in other fonts. 

Unfortunately, there is no way to 
manually alphabetize your fonts on your 
current machine short of starting with a 
new System file without any fonts and 
using the Font/DA Mover - to copy fonts 
to the new System in reverse alphabetical 
order. 


I ajn using Finder version 5.0, Why 
won’t it display the size of Folders 
when Display by Size is selected? 

Jim Ralston 

Greensboro, NC 

Finder 5.0 (and 5.1, which is shipping 
with the new- Mae Plus) supports the 
new Hierarchical File System (HFS) 


which provides a much faster and effi¬ 
cient means of managing a large number 
of files and folders. HFS, however, isn't 
able to determine the size of a folder 
unless that folder is open — a minor 
tradeoff in functionality for speed. 

By the way, while you can use versions 
5.0 or 5J (5.1 is better, it fixes and 
improves 5.0 slightly) with die Macin¬ 
tosh Plus, Mac 512 and Mac XL, it may 
not work properly with the Mac 128 and 
should not be used with those comput¬ 
ers. Owners of 128K Macs should con¬ 
tinue to use Finder 4,1. 


Howcaxi I create an HFS volume on 
a 400K floppy disk? And is there any 
casv way to tell whether a volume is an 
HFS volume or the old flat-file vol¬ 
ume? 

Janet Roth 

Cheyenne, WY 

First, be sure that your System sup¬ 
ports HFS, Then hold down the Option 
key while initializing or erasing a 4Q0K 
disk. Tliis will format the disk as an HFS 
volume. Remember, chough, that there 
is no way to force the old flat-file volume 
structure on a volume that's over 400K in 
size. 

An easy way to tell whether a disk ts an 
HFS volume is to look carefully at the 
closely spaced horizontal lines below the 
volume information in a volume win- 
dow. If there is one black dot or pixel, 
that volume has been formatted with the 
HFS file structure ( top window). If the 
dot is absent, that volume has the old, 
flat-file structure (bottom window). 


Page 43 of the MacDraw manual 
states that you can draw a rectangle to 
border vour text. Any text then typed 
in the rectangle will then automatical¬ 
ly word-wrap. This does not happen. 
Do I need version 1.9 of MacDraw} 
William S. Halstead 
East Hempstead, NY 

This feature works in versions 1,7 and 
1 9 of MacDraw. The trick is to (1) first 
draw die rectangle, (2) select the rectan¬ 
gle so that it is highlighted, and finally 
(3) simply scan typing away. This feature 
won’t work if you draw die rectangle, 
select the text cursor from the palette, 
select an insertion point in the rectangle, 
and then start to type. 

I have the new Hard Disk 20 with 
the Hierarchical File System, I like to 
keep my documents in separate de¬ 
scriptive folders. Do I have to put a 


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A single bUcfc dot or pixd 
meiit* thd this is in NFS 
fontutted volume. 


Dot is absent .•. This is 
not an HFS volume. 


copy of each application in the folders? 
In fact, will it help speed performance 
to, say, put a copy of MacWrite in each 
folder that contains MacWrite docu¬ 
ments? 

David Hart 

Brooklyn, NY 

The answer is no, do not put multiple 
copies of applications throughout your 
HD20, HFS creates a new resource type 
(APFL) in the Desktop file that points to 
the exact location of each application on 
the disk. Thus when you launch a docu¬ 
ment there is no extensive search. The 
APPL resource tells the Finder exactly 
where the proper application will be 
found if it is on the disk. 


I know that I have to create a 
Bundle (BNDL) resource when I add 
my custom icon to an application that 
came with only the generic (default) 
application icon* I even know how to 
create the BNDL resource* I know 
that the bundle’s function is to tie an 
icon to a file type* The question is; 
How does the Finder do this? 

Pam Monsini 
Denver, CO 

[Answer by Ginger Jemigan of Macin¬ 
tosh Technical Support.] 

When the Finder encounters a file type 
it needs to display, it looks up the type in 
the Desktop file. The Desktop file is used 
by the Finder to keep track of all perti¬ 
nent information about how to display 
the documents on a volume. If the 
Finder finds a bundle for the file in the 
Desktop file, then it uses the associated 
icon when it displays the file. If it can’t 
find a bundle, then it uses the default 
document or application icon. 

If the file is an application that has the 


bundle bit set, but the bundle isn’t in the 
Desktop file, the Finder makes a copy of 
the bundle and puts it in the Desktop 
file* The application is then displayed 
with its associated icon. 



If a data file has lost its icon (it’s on a 
disk without the application and the 
Desktop file was trashed), then it will be 
displayed with the default document 
icon until the Finder encounters a copy 
of die application that contains the right 
bundle. The Finder then makes a copy of 
the application’s bundle and places it in 
the Desktop file of the data file’s disk. 


Please explain the typos of memory 
testing performed by the Macintosh 
on power up. Does the Macintosh 
write and/or read to each byte of 
memory or just a random rcad/wrire 
to memory locations? Is memory al¬ 
ways cleared at power up? 

Barry Cohn 
Lmtisinlle, KT 

Each time the Macintosh is switched 
on, the boot ROM code determines how 
much memory' is present and then tests 
each and every byte. When you, howev¬ 
er, restart your machine after a system 
crash or when using the reset switch the 
same tests are usually performed, but 
aren’t guaranteed to take place* 

The memory test itself consists of 
filling all the 68000 registers with a 
repeating three-byte pattern* A looping 
MOVEM.L assembly language instruc¬ 
tion copies the contents of the registers 
to all available memory'* This write oper¬ 
ation alternates between the highest 
available and lowest available bytes of 
untested memory until the patterns con¬ 
verge in the memory map* 

Next, the code looks at every 1 byte of 
memory, from the lowest to die highest 
byte, comparing every three-byte pattern 
against the register standards. If a single 
bit is different the Macintosh fails die 
test and reports the error and location of 
the defective byte* You’ll get a sad Mac¬ 
intosh arid a number that can be decoded 
to track down the offending RAM chip* 
Since the number of registers available 
for die memory write operation is not an 
even multiple of memory' size, several 
bytes (possibly up to 24) can be left 
untested in high memory. These bytes, 
however, aren’t typically used by' user 
programs or data. 

After the memory test completes, each 
byte of memory' is filled with an SFF, 
using the same method described above. 
Again, several bytes may be left unwrit¬ 
ten. Next the screen is filled with the 
familiar gray desktop pattern and boot¬ 
ing proceeds. 

Thanks to Chris Espinosa for the 
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feel for the system. But then I decid¬ 
ed to get serious and to sec if it 
would be possible to design a battle 
as “professional 11 playing and appear¬ 
ing as those included. 

To do so meant I would have to 
do some thinking and research. 
First, it was necessary to recognize 
the game's weak points as well as its 
strong design points. For example, 
there were no mounted troops avail¬ 
able and while there were plenty of 
bowmen there were no gunpowder- 
equipped warriors. I knew it would 
be possible to kludge a way around 
both of these problems. 

Allowing only one troop the abili¬ 
ty to quick march would simulate 
fast-moving cavalry, arrows could 
mean bullets. But it just would not 
look right and to include such 
would, I felt sure, destroy the part of 
rhe program I most loved—‘its realis¬ 
tic feel. 

So, I needed a battle which in¬ 
volved only archers and hand-to- 
hand troops in a somewhat medi¬ 
eval-style setting. It soon became 
apparent that it would be easy to 


simulate small skirmishes within a 
larger battle. 

But could an entire battle be simu¬ 
lated with this game? As a war- 
gamer, I asked myself if I could 
design a wargame scenario at what is 
known as the Grand Tactical level. 
Each unit would really represent 
many, but very similar, units, 

I pulled down a few reference 
books and (in the book Medieval 
England from Oxford University 
Press) finally found a battle that I 
thought Ancient An of War could 
handle simulating. It was the Battle 
of Floddcn Field which had taken 
place in 1513 AD. The book had 
much information on the battle, its 
history and maps. 

I moused to the Game Generator 
portion of The Ancimt An of War in 
order to create a “campaign disk. 1 ' I 
would be led step-by-step through 
the mechanics of this creation pro¬ 
cess, but it quickly became apparent 
that I was righc to have done my 
homework. 

The first thing to do was to make 
a map. At the top of the screen was a 
view of a section of die entire (now 


blank) scrolling map. In the lower 
left section of the screen was a mini- 
map, a miniature version of the 
entire map. At die bottom right of 
die screen were the map board 
“pieces” with which I could fill the 
map. 

Arranged in rows were squares of 
terrain representing various forma¬ 
tions of hills and plains, water and 
bridges. I could dick on a piece with 
the mouse and drag it to the position 
I wanted it on die niapboard. Four 
complete screens of assorted map 
pieces are available which cover just 
about any type of terrain possibility. 

The “Floddcn Field” map from 
Medieval England at hand, I began to 
build my battlefield. The river and 
low hills went together nicely, as did 
the rugged hills die battle was 
fought near. It took a while to 
understand how the jigsaw-like 
pieces could be made to fit but it 
soon became easy to form terrain 
that appeared astonishingly close to 
my source mate rial. 

Once the terrain was together it 
was time to form and place my 
squads. Because of the Grand Tacti¬ 
cal nature of my idea, each of my 
squads would represent more dian 
the fourteen troops shown* Still, it 
was fairly simple to balance die 
forces as shown by the tactical battle 
map I had found in the history book. 
I placed my squads of Scots soldiers 
(seasoned with a few archers) on the 
two hills I had created near the 
southern bottom of the map. The 
hiil to the left was Floddcn Hill, 
where the actual battle would com¬ 
mence. The hill to the right was 
Brankston Hill, where die Scots had 
made camp. To represent die camp I 
placed a village symbol on the right 
hand hill. 

The Earl of Surrey’s knights and 
men at arms were placed in a column 
of march from the two casdcs that 
had served as gadicring points in the 
north. Tile Earl's elite forces were in 
the center. For die formation of each 
group I chose the so-called “Rum¬ 
ble 11 formation as it seemed that 
would best simulate the rush to arms 
diat characterized a prc-Napolconic 
batdc in England. 

Then it was time to place the 
critical flags. Eacli side would have 


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to do its best to capture the oppos¬ 
ing ilag. It was critical to the simula¬ 
tion to place these flags properly so 
that their presence would make the 
lines of battle flow as they had 
historically. 

I placed one English flag in Eta! 
Castle and another in Ford Castle, 
which I had originally positioned as 
my source map showed. 1 reasoned 
that this would cause the coniputer- 
comrolted Scots to attempt a break¬ 
out from their position, through 
English lines and ultimately, to occu¬ 
py die castles. 

The Scots flag was simple to place 
—it went directly within the village 
that symbolized the Scots camp* The 
Engltsh would have to quell the 
Scots" attack and overrun die Scots’ 
base while making certain no break- 
tint occurred to jeapordize their own 
flags. 

Then it was time to change the 
various rules, or variables, that gov¬ 
ern a scenario, I made crossing water 
and hills extremely dangerous as, in 
this game, each unit represented 
many men* I also disallowed castles 
from producing more soldiers* I rea¬ 
soned that most, if not all, of the 
armed might would be present at the 
battle and that rite battle would not 
simulate enough time for mure 
troops to be trained. 

Then it was time to write the 
“story 35 of the campaign-—the intro¬ 
duction that each player would read, 
I typed, “In 1513, James of Scotland 
crossed die border knowing that 
England's King Henry VIII was at 
the wars in France. But the Earl of 
Surrey did not hesitate to take the 
field against the invader* Even 
diough James and his pikemen held 


Follows Mac Interface. ***** 

Printed Documentation: ***** 

On-Screen Help: ***** 

Performance: ***** 

Support; ***- 

Consumer Value: ***** 


Comments: Ancient Art of War 
is an excellent game that includes a 
powerful game generator feature. 
Best Feature: The animated bat- 


the higher ground, Surrey’s men-at- 
arms would, with traditional broad¬ 
sword and halberd, earn 7 the day. 
Can you, as the Ear l of Surrey, 
defeat fames and overrun his camp 
before the Scots capture Etal Castle 
in the North and Casdc Ford in die 
South?” 

I named my scenario simply 
“Fiodden Field—1513 AD” and 
then, with trembling mouse, chose 
to play my own created scenario. 

What an experience! The battle 
raged along purely historical lines 
and it became dear that die Earl of 
Surrey had been, indeed, a splendid 
tactician, (I always choose Sun Tzu, 
who represents the most advanced 
computer level, to play the Scot). 
Even now, more than half the time 
the Scots will get by me and rake the 
castles and flags. 

(The “Flodden Field” scenario is 
available on CompuServe’s MAUG 
group in that group’s DL4 area if 
you would like to try playing it*) 

FINAL SHOTS 

My only disappointment in the 
game was mentioned briefly above. 
There should be two more soldier 
types* Until cavalry and gunpowder 
troops can be simulated in animation 
there will always be battles that can¬ 
not be easily fought in this system* I 
hope that a future version will in¬ 
clude such troops. 

But this criticism does not detract 
from the game as it now stands, a 
beautifully designed and executed 
labor oflove (and war!). The wealth 
of dera if i ts a n i m ated he a u ty an d the 
zest of game designing all go into 
making The Ancient An of War a 
truly classic wargame. 


ties are as much fun to watch as a 
movie* 

Worst Feature: No cavalry or rifle¬ 
men* 

List Price: $44*95, 128K, no 
printer or external disk required* 
Copy-protected. 

Published by Sroderbund Soft¬ 
ware. 17 Paul Dr*, San Rafael. CA 
94903-2101* (415) 479-1170* 


The Ancient Art of War: Report Card 

Overall Rating «... 


ON YOUR MACS! 

(continuedfivni pope 73) 
lines), is good and absolutely neces¬ 
sary. RSG also allows users to set 
multiple tabs of various widths, a 
feature nor lound even on the much 
more ex pc n s i vc PqtfcA !aka \ 

The program’s major limitations, 
however, will get in some folks’ way, 
Manhattan Graphics should think 
about adding scroll bars to the 
screen, fixing it to accept fonnatted 
word processing files and take (at 
least) MacPaint documents directly, 
without using the Scrapbook. 

While RSG'S basic philosophy of 
treating everything in "block” fash¬ 
ion might seem a bit eccentric com¬ 
pared ro rite way that PageMaker or 
MacPttblisher treat text and graphics, 
this idiosyncrasy lends itself to per¬ 
forming a few tricks. By organizing 
text in a number of wide but shallow 
text blocks, it is possible to set type 
around irregular I v-shaped graphics 
or in unusual shapes* This is, howev¬ 
er, a rime-consuming task and de¬ 
mands extreme accuracy, so it isn’t 
something youll want to tty on 
every layout. 

Of course, LaserWriter output of 
RSG pages makes the best use of the 
program but, unlike PageMaker, 
which virtually demands the laser 
printer, RSG can yield some impres¬ 
sive results when used with Im¬ 
age Writer, too. This is certainly an 
advantage for most of us* 

For those who do repetitive lay- 
ours—say, formatting a weekly re¬ 
port with lots of numbers in which 
only the information changes with 
each new edition —RSG allows you 
ro save only the page layout and not 
the information, text or pictures 
within it. This way, new text, illus¬ 
trations or numerical data can be 
easily placed in each new report—a 
very handy feature. 

Best of all, however, Manhattan 
Graphics achieved what it set out to 
do* Because of its very free-form 
design, ReadySetGo is the desktop 
publishing program that works in 
the manner most familiar to layout 
people* This may not he of value to 
everyone, especially those users with 
a strong editorial or word-oriented 
background, but it is ah effective and 
comfortable place to start for many 
artists and novices. 


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your Macintosh, It runs at 16MHz, or twice the Mac's basic 
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68000, allowing it to access twice as much memory at a time. 
The 68020 communicates directly with the 68881, a floating¬ 
point math co-processor, boosting the performance of 
number-crunching programs such as spreadsheets. The 
upgrade features a built-in SCSI port that is functionally 
identical to the SCSI port found on the new Mac+™. Finally, 
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(continued jivnt pqac 90) 

to learn as much as possible as you 

can about the solution. 

First, take copious notes. While 
that address or suspect's name might 
not be important to you the First 
time you hear it, sooner or later 
you’ll wish you had made a reference 
card. For information-heavy games 
like Deja Vu, Borrowed Time and 
Ultima //, it pays to set aside a 
notebook, or at least a section of a 
notebook, which you’ll always keep 
nearby when you play the game. Jot 
down anything that seems relevant, 
even if it makes no sense at the time, 
since all the pieces of the puzzle will 
eventually fit together. Some games, 
like Silicon Beach Software's En¬ 
chanted Scepters, even include the 
Note Pad desk accessory, and smart 
players will use it to its fullest. 

Second, make sure to save the 
game constantly. Many games, Bor¬ 
rowed Time and Deja Vu in particu¬ 
lar, make it easy to save games every 
few moves, meaning that if you do 
something fatal you can easily back¬ 
track. 

Finally, map everything, studying 
your map to be sure you haven’t 
missed a critical location in your 
wanderings. Make sure you've pains* 
takingly looked in every nook and 
cranny of every room. Try to make 
use of visual clues that might not be 
mentioned in text bars, like a large 
chest pictured in a room that makes 
no mention of it, or a window that 
looks like it could be climbed 
through. Take nothing for granted. 
If you have a wallet, try opening it, 
and you could just find an item you 
thought you had to look for. Open 
everything, talk to everyone, and try 
everything you can possibly imagine. 
If that fails, do it all again, and this 
time you just might stumble on a 
person or place you hadn’t seen 
before, or a new approach to a 
situation you thought was unsolv- 
able. 

If all that fails, relax, Put the game 
away a while, and you might have 
some fresh ideas the next time you 
boot it up. Try playing with a friend, 
who might offer a new insight. Most 
important, remember that your ad* 
venture is supposed to be fun. 

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MMFNDERS 


Ever go into a computer store and wish you had someone you 
coutd trust tell you what the various programs and accessories do 
and how weif they do it? These Minifinders detail items chosen by 
the editors. Each one has been rated from 1 to 5 mice and there 
are even a few bomb icons scattered here and there. Red names 
indicate this month's additions. And, since so many of you have 
asked r we've included a code that indicates whether or not a 
program is copy protected, CP means copy protected, NCP means 
not copy protected, HOPE means a non-copy-protected version is 
available at extra cost and CP? means we don't know the status . if 
you do r write us at MmFmders, c/o MacUser, 25 West 35th St, 
New York, NY 10018. Next time you have to find products you 
can count on, count on MacUser! 


MINIFINDER INDEX 


BUSINESS ACCOUNTING .122 

COMMUNICATIONS... 126 

DATABASES.... 123 

DESK MANAGERS.... 128 

EDUCATION... 132 

ENTERTAINMENT... 134 

GRAPHICS & DESIGN. 124 

HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES. 140 

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE.... 122 

LANGUAGES... 130 

MUSIC. 140 

NUMBER CRUNCHING...124 

ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS___ 126 

PERSONAL FINANCE.. 123 

UTILITIES...... 128 

WORD PROCESSING. 126 


INTEGRATED SOFTWARE 

Crunch is an icon-driven relational spreadsheet that features 
•*■* versatile charting and database capabilities. Strong finam 
cial logic, date and mathematical functions. Spreadsheets 
can be linked. The manual is clear and concisely written. 
Macros are not supported, $195, Paladin, 2895 Zanker Rd., 
San Jose. CA 95134. CP 

Ensemble lets users create a database of words, pictures, and/or 
«*• numbers; graph data; generate custom forms and link files 
for applications such as mail merge. Can perform calcula¬ 
tions and math functions on data. Capacity limited by RAM 
and disk size. £299,95, Hayden. 600 Suffolk St. Lowell. MA 
01854. CP 

Excel is THE power spreadsheet. Of the Mac, of the world. Has 
***** 256-column by 16,384-row capability. Features include a 
powerful, easy to use macro function (with a recorder to 
make creation simple) and elaborate charting facilities, Can 
link multiple spreadsheets, 512K Mac and external drive 
required, $395, Microsoft, 10700 Northup Way, Bellevue, 
WA 98009, CP 

Jazz provides well integrated modules for word processing, graphs, 
**■* worksheets, databases and communications. Each of the 
modules is substantial. HotView, where data placed in any 
module automatically updates all other documents that use 
that data, is best feature. Jazz provides adequate coverage 
of most data and communications needs of small business¬ 
es. Requires 512K and external Drive, $595, Lotus, 55 
Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142. CP 



Quartet is an integrated program that works on a 128K Mac, built 
*#* around a powerful spreadsheet with a full range of functions, 
it can also be used as a database and provides good quality 
charts from spreadsheet data. Documentation is adequate 
but not too well organized. $199. Haba Systems, 15154 
Stagg St., Van Nuys, CA 91405. CP 


BUSINESS ACCOUNTING 

Accountant's Choice is a powerful system built around a relation- 
***** al database, with functions accessed through menus. Stan¬ 
dard reports are provided but most can be customized. 
Multiple journals allowed. Number of accounts determined 
by disk space. General Ledger can stand alone or integrate 
with other modules, not yet available. Requires 512K. 
printer and external drive. $695. Sierra Information Sys¬ 
tems. 10201 Torre Ave.. Cupertino. CA 95014. CP? 

AMS General Ledger is a Ledger with five preset journals: Cash 
***# Disbursements, Receipts, General, Sales, and Purchases, 
Other modules are planned. Account ranges are preset, 
Menus and data entry are very straightforward. Flexible 
summary reports are built in, but customer and vendor 
information is very minimal, $295, Check Mark Software 
PO Box 860, Fort Collins, CO 80522, CP? 

Gallery Finance is a one-write system with General Ledger. Cash 
Disbursements. Payables and Receivables in a single pack¬ 
age, Additional modules to be added. Data entered in a 
journal is automatically posted to appropriate record card. 
Excellent manual includes tutorial on basic accounting 
principles. Requires 512K, printer and external drive. $795. 
Micromax Systems, 6868 Nancy Ridge Dr,, San Diego, CA 
92121, CP? 

Hardlsk is a complex integrated hard disk system (General Ledger, 
**** Receivables, Payables, Inventory, Payroll and Job Cost 
modules) that does not use Mac interface. Fully menu 
driven. Manual is detailed but complicated, with a few extra 
pages that make it Mac-specific. Flexible reporting, state¬ 
ments and account numbering; huge numbers of accounts, 
transactions, profit centers and detailed financial analysis. 
Requires hard disk and printer, $695 per module. Great 
Plains, Box 9739, Fargo, ND 58109, CP? 

MacOneWrlte Cash Disbursements is a simple, one-write check 
writing system. Limited functionality, but does allow some 
detailed information. Menus clear and easy to follow, but 
check printing can be confusing. Other modules planned. 
512K and printer required. $245, Sierra, PO Box 485. 
Coarsegold, CA 93614. CP? 

Pafantlr is a simple, inexpensive accounting system for a 128K, 
■ one drive Macintosh. Manual is clear and concise; program 
uses icons for common operations: menus are clear and 
detailed, with most operations easy to find and use. Flexible 
report formatting and a customized chart of accounts. 
Program is written in Microsoff BASIC so it is very slow, Nice 
design but the speed is intolerable. Requires M/crosoff 
BASIC . printer. $145 per module. Palantlr. 12777 Jones 
Rd,, Houston. TX 77070. CP? 

Rags I0 Riches integrated accounting modules (General Ledger 
***** and Accounts Receivable) use Mac interface to the hilt. 
Information entered in one window automatically transfers. 
Menu commands all have command keystrokes, as can 
accounts. No detailed or flexible reporting. Very easy to use, 
although it can be confusing to operate with several windows 
on screen Requires 512K and printer. $199.95 per module, 
Chang Labs, 5300 Stevens Creek Btvd,, San Jose. CA 
95129, CP 

Strictly Busine&s General Ledger features clear, well-outlined 
***** set-up procedures and operations. Very flexible, with a 
custom chart of accounts; user-defined journals; up to 99 
profit centers per company with up to 100 departments each; 
and customized reports. Program spools to primer and 
allows for printing of multiple documents. Built-in Smooth- 
Talker gives verbal error messages or entries, if desired. 


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Other modules planned. Requires 512K, printer and external 
drive, $395. Future Design Software, 13681 Williamette 
Dr.. Westminster. CA 92683. CP? 


PERSONAL FINANCE 

Dollars & Sense is a bookkeeping program suitable for personal, 
m home and small-business use. Easy to use, with a good 
manual and excellent on-screen help. Will handle up to 120 
separate accounts or money categories. Uses standard 
double-entry accounting techniques. Reports can be gener¬ 
ated and either viewed on-screen or printed. Has simple 
graphingand charting facilities. $149.95, Monogram, 8295 
S, La Cienega Blvd.. Inglewood, CA 90301. CP 
Electric Checkbook does exactly what the name says: keeps a 
•m running account of checkbook transactions, balances 
checkbook to bank statements, tracks bills, and even prints 
out checks. Provides detailed financial statements, calcu¬ 
lates net worth, lists expenses by category and tracks your 
personal cash flow. $79.95, State of the Art, 3191-C Airport 
Loop, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. CP 
Financial Cookbook provides nearly 3 dozen "recipes' 1 to help 
**•* users figure out financial formulas (i.e., mortgage costs at 
different percentage rates) by inputting pertinent data. Very 
user-friendly, $44.95 Electronic Arts, 2755 Campus Drive, 
San Mateo. CA 94403. CP 

Financial Utilities Pack is a set of applications that allow users 
to figure annuities, compound and simple interest, depreci¬ 
ation and amortization, Simple and well documented. $69. 
Cognitive Software, PO Box 26948, Austin, IX 78755, NCP 
Forecast Is a tax estimating and what-if program designed to work 
*« with and use Dollars & Sense files. Straightforward, easy to 
use program, $69.95, Monogram, 8295 S, La Cienega 
Blvd,, Inglewood, CA 90301. CP 
The Home Accountant is a complete and easy to use financial 
**** system. Data entry is intuitive. All kinds of reports, including 
charts and checks, are easily generated. Entered data will 
update all relevant material. $150, Arrays, 6711 Valjean 
Ave.. Van Nuys, CA 91406, CP 

WJIlWrltor uses a rule-based system to create wills valid in all 
*** states except LA. Simple to use, comes with a complete 
book on wills, $39,95. Legisoft/Nolo Press. 950 Parker St., 
Berkeley, CA 94710. NCR 


DATABASES 

Business File vision is a masterpiece of Macintosh programming, 
mw the only true graphic database on any micro. Much more 
powerful than the original, accepts MacPaint graphics. 
$395. Teles Software, 3420 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Moni¬ 
ca. CA 90405. CP 

Factfinder is a free-form information organizer (medium-duty 
mw database). Users enter data on to factsheets in any manner 
desired and select keywords. Searches are by name or 
keyword. Only one factsheet can be open at a time. 
Publisher offers free telephone support (800 number). 
$149.95. Forethought. 1973 Landings Dr., Mountain View, 
CA 94943. NCP 

FileMaker is a nonrelational database that combines lots of power 
*ww with ease of use. Data entry is extremely flexible and all 
items in ail fields are indexed so that multiple criteria 
searches are both simple and fast. Calculation fields make 
the creation of invoices and similar documents a snap. 
Reports can include graphics and multiple data layouts are 
easy to construct. $195, Forethought, 1973 Landings Dr, t 
Mountain View, CA 94943, NCP 

FJtovtalon is a simple database that can change the way you think 
Mi about data and data organization. Records are based around 
user-created graphics screens. Screens and records can be 
linked in complex ways, $195. Telos Software, 3420 Ocean 
Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405. CP 


s a 

IstBase is a small, easy to use database that allows users to join 
or append files. It is the simplest, most accessible relational 
database available for the Mac. Supports calculated fields, 
including statistical summaries such as averages. Inte¬ 
grates with IstMerge and IsfPort. $195, DeskTop Software, 
244 Wall St„ Princeton, NJ 08540. CP 
Helix is a relational database that makes extensive use of icons. 
Excels in database setup and forms generation. Setup is 
made easy by the adherance to the Mac interface. The 
manual is clear, thorough and well-indexed. Too complicat¬ 
ed for most simple database applications, excellent where a 
relational database application is required. Requires a 512K 
Mac and an external drive, but is slow on that configuration, 
$395, Odesta. 4084 Commercial Blvd,, Northbrook, IL 
60062 NCP 

The Housekeeper is a home inventory database. Users can keep 
track of assets for both tax and casualty purposes. Special¬ 
ized reports are easily generated. $59.95. Aegis Develop¬ 
ment, # 277, 2210 Wilshire Blvd,, Santa Monica, CA 
90403. NCP 

1 Know It's Here Somewhere stores information in a simple fiiing 
mm system. Ideal for general household or small business use 
File formats are flexible and 31 samples are included. Can 
cross reference up to five files at a time: perform simple, 
wild card, or multiple key searches; and print selected items 
or whole files, $59,95. Hayden. 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 
01854. NCP 

interlace is a flexible relational database that makes it simple to 
create single or multiple files and establish links between 
files. Excellent report generator gives full control over 
appearance, style of output. Switcher, LaserWriter, hard disk 
and NFS compatible. Requires 512K, second drive or hard 
disk highly recommended. S129 retail $95 direct. Singular 
Software, 5888 Castano Dr., San Jose, CA 95129, CP? 
MacLion is a true relational database program. Can handle all 
*•* databasing requirements although set up may require out¬ 
side (consultant) help. Has a built-in programming language 
(LEO) and can be customized for any Can 

handle very large files as well as multiple files. $379. 
Computer Software Design, 1904 Wright Circle, Anaheim, 
CA 92806, CP' 

Mega Filer is a simple file manager, its limited capabilities have 
** been far surpassed by cheaper and easier to use programs, 
Valuable only In conjunction with MegaForm. $195, Mega- 
baus. 5703 Oberlin Dr. f San Diego, CA 92121. CP 
Microsoft File is a flexible data manager. Creates files for a 
«*• variety of data, including simple graphics. Files are created 
in simple row/column format, but reports and forms are 
easily customized by moving field names around on a blank 
form. Sorting is limited to approximately 5000 records on 
128K Mac. $195. Microsoft, 10700 Northup Way. Bellevue, 
WA 98004. CP 

Omnls 3 is a power database, featuring concurrent multiple file 
mm management. Can handle 24 files. 12 at a time, and is fully 
relational. Allows user to create custom environments in¬ 
cluding user-defined menus, commands and dialogs. Good 
report generation capability. Comes in single and multiple 
user versions. $495 [single user version). Blyth, 2655 
Campus Drive, Suite 150, San Mateo, CA 94403. CP 
Professional Bibliographic System is a database designed tor 
•** storing and retrieving bibliographies. Predesigned forms for 
20 types of entries. Citations automatically formatted with 
correct punctuation for printing, $295, Personal Bibliograph¬ 
ic Software, PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. CP? 
OverVUE is a power-packed relational database that has extensive 
***** sorting, summarizing and report generation capacity. Has 
macros and a charting function. Good manual. The program 
tries to anticipate every need conceivable in manipulating 
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Record Holder is a flexible, easy-to-use form-oriented data 
••• manager. Set up is particularly simple and the search 
features are powerful. Drawbacks are a somewhat limited 
report function and the inability to use fonts other than the 
default font and graphics at all. Has on-screen help. 
$49.95. Software Discoveries. 99 Crestwood Rd., Tolland. 
CT 06084. CP? 


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CllckOn Worksheet is a 50-row by 20-column spreadsheet that 
•••• loads onto any system disk as a desk accessory. Though 
small in size, it has remarkable capabilities for a desk 
accessory. It produces line, bar and pie charts and changes 
In the worksheet automatically reflect in charts. $79.95. 
T/Maker Company, 2115 Landings Dr.. Mountain View, CA 
94043. NCP? 

Multiplan, the first Mac product from someone other than Apple is 
—— beginning to show age. Still a very capable basic spread¬ 
sheet with simple sorting, 63 columns by 255 rows, many 
built-in functions, other standard spreadsheet features. 
$199.95. Microsoft. 10700 Northup Way. Bellevue. WA 
98004. CP 

ProAnalysIs is a powerful real estate investment analysis pro- 
•••— gram. This program uses the Mac interface as well as any 
program yet published. Analytic power is combined with 
report generating so good you have to see it produce an 
extraordinary product. Requires 512K. $295. Technalysis 
Services, 14555 DeBell Rd.. Los Altos Hills. CA 94022. CP 
StatVIew is a high-powered statistical calculation package. Easily 

— and efficiently handles all the common statistical tech¬ 
niques and tests many uncommon ones. Has a user defin¬ 
able area as well. Easy to use and well documented. 
$199.95. Brainpower, # 250, 24009 Ventura Blvd.. Calaba- 
sas, CA 91302. CP? 

StatWorks is a general-purpose statistics package that is both 

— powerful and easy to use. Handles all standard tests and 
procedures. Single variable and multivariate statistics are 
supported. $125. Cricket Software, 3508 Market St.. #206, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104. CP 


GRAPHICS & DESIGN 

Animation Toolkit I lets users prepare "film clips’* of moving 
••• objects which play back at varying speed, like old-fashioned 
flip books. Drawings are built pixel by pixel in frames, using 
some of the tools from MacPaint. They can be copied and 
altered easily from frame to frame. Each film clip plays 
repetitiously as it is being constructed. A limited animation 
tool, but a lot of fun. $49.95. Ann Arbor Softworks. 308 Vi 
S. State St., Ann Arbor, Ml 48104. CP? 

Art Qrabbor with Body Shop is a desk accessory that lets users 
••••• browse MacPaint documents, selecting and copying as they 
choose. Selections can be larger than screen size. Also 
included are MacPaint documents and templates to allow 
the creation of people in your art. $49.95. Hayden, 600 
Suffolk St.. Lowell. MA 01853. CP 
ClIckArt Special Effects is a MacPaint enhancement desk 
accessory. Allows the user to distort, stretch, rotate and use 
perspective on MacPaint documents. A necessary addition 
for all serious users of MacPaint. $49.95. T/Maker, 2115 
Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP 
ColorPrflnt facilitates color printing on the standard ImageWriter. 
— MacPaint files set up as overlays are read into ColorPrint, 
and the program controls proper positioning, registration and 
colored ribbon switching. Good results require lots of hard 
work, but it’s cheaper than an ImageWriter II. $49.95. Esoft 
Enterprises, PO Box 179, Owasso. OK 74055. NCP 
DaVIncI Building Blocks features predrawn blocks of brown- 
stone, garden, and skyscraper portions that can be cut and 
pasted together to form landscape and architectural draw- 


ings. Fun for even non-pros. $79.95. Hayden. 600 Suffolk 
St.. Lowell, MA 01853. CP 

Fluent Fonts is a two-disk collection of fonts. Forty-nine different 
—— items are included. All install easily in user Systems. Most 
are well executed and some are extraordinarily nice. This is 
a real bargain for font lovers. $49.95. Casady, PO Box 
223779, Carmel. CA 93922. NCP 
Fontastlc is the best font editor now available for the Mac. 
Features a large editing window with a grid to make 
positioning easy. Select letters to edit by clicking on a 
matrix of the font. Allows scaling of existing fonts and 
previewing the various styles (italic, bold. etc.). $49.95. 
Altsys. PO Box 865410, Plano. TX 75086. NCP 
Icon Switcher changes icons for applications and the documents 
—— they generate, permitting you to customize icons for person¬ 
al work. New icons can be built pixel by pixel in the program 
or created in MacPaint and pasted in. $19.95. PBI Software, 
1155B-H Chess Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. NCP 
The Mac Art Dept, is a collection of over 150 graphic images 
—— ranging from foods to hands holding signs to borders. Best 
suited for letterheads, memos, other business use. Excel¬ 
lent manual. $39.95. Simon & Schuster, Computer Software 
Div., 1230 Ave. of the Americas. New York, NY 10020. NCP 
Mac the Knlfa/Vol. 1: Treasury contains over 500 pieces of clip 
—— art in the form of MacPaint documents and two new fonts. 
The art is well organized and mostly high quality. The rulers, 
for on-screen measurement, and the disk label templates 
are particularly useful. If you only plan on getting one clip art 
disk, this would be a good choice. $39. Miles Computing, # 
212, 7136 Haskell Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406. NCP 
Mac the Knlfe/Vol. 2: Fonts contains over two dozen new fonts. 
—— Some of these (Paris and Stuttgart, for example are real 
stunners). If you do a lot of word processing try Paris 9 point 
(it’s a big 9 point) as your text face and use High quality 
printing. $49. Miles Computing, # 212, 7136 Haskell 
Ave., Van Nuys. CA 91406. NCP 
MacDraft is the step beyond MacDraw. This object-oriented 

— drafting program is packed with advanced features such as 
rotation, zooming, auto dimensioning and scales. A profes¬ 
sional level product. $239. Innovative Data Design, 1975 
Willow Pass Rd.. Concord, CA 94520. CP 

MacDtaw is an object-oriented structured graphics program. Can 
—— be used to design forms, create presentation materials and 
do technical illustrations. Drawing sizes up to 8 feet by 10 
feet are possible. Text can be easily generated and integrat¬ 
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MacDraw documents, but not manipulated. $195. Apple 
Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino. CA 95014. NCP 
MacPaint is the graphics program that started a whole new genre. 
—— Still the best freehand graphics tool. Version 1.5 supports 
512K Macs and the LaserWriter. Multiple tools, patterns and 
features too numerous to describe. A work of art for artists. 
Comes with Macs. Apple Computer. 20525 Mariani Ave., 
Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP 

MacPubllaher is a tool for creating newsletters. Allows multiple 

— page issues. Layout is fairly easy but hard to do precisely. 
Style and font changing ability is limited. Runs on a 128K 
Mac but is slow; a 512K should be considered a require¬ 
ment. Printer support, including LaserWriter, is good. Ideal 
for informal newsletters, not yet a professional tool. 
$99.95. Boston Software Publishers, 19 Ledge Hill Rd.. 
Boston, MA 02132. CP 

Magic Slate is a graphics and design program with built-in special 
••• effects and custom features. Fun but sometimes difficult to 
use. Great for pattern design, block and geometric graphics 
and watercolor-style “washes.” Requires 512K. $99. De- 
vionics. PO Box 2126, Covina. CA 91722. CP 
Microsoft Chart is the standard to be matched in presentation 
—— graphics programs. Users can easily create area, bar, 
column, line, pie, scatter and combination charts. A total of 
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M.UJ> (MacroMind Utility Disk) is a disk of various utilities for 
***** Mus/c Worts and Video Works owners. It also contains Cheap- 
paint and Art Grabber *,two graphics desk accessories that 
are musts for graphics enthusiasts. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St.. 
Lowell, MA 01854. CP? 

PageMaker is an advanced layout and makeup program. Can 
•*** easily create multiple page documents. Output is optimized 
for LaserWriter. Good documentation, $495. Aldus* 616 
First Ave,, Seattle. WA 98104. CP 
RaadySatGo is a page makeup program for 512K Macs. Users 
**** build up pages from blocks of text* graphics and rules. 
Resizing and scaling of blocks are supported. Each block 
can be precisely positioned. Text and art may be pasted in 
from another source or created within the program. Good 
LaserWriter support. $125, Manhattan Graphics, 163 Varick 
St. New York, NY 10013. NCR 

Slide Shew Magician 1.3 is useful for creating full screen audio- 
*#** visual presentations on the Mac. Frame branching, improved 
editing capabilities, external cassette recorder synchroniza¬ 
tion and digitized sound capabilities make this much more 
powerful than the original. $59.95. Magnum t 21115 
Devonshire St,, Chatsworth, CA 91311. CP 
VldeoWork* is a full-featured animation package. Professional 
***** quality animations are easily accomplished using the tools 
provided. Features frame-by-frame and real-time modes. 
Comes with an art disk of predrawn images and Art Grabber 
(which allows the user to use any part of a MacPaint 
document in Video Works), Includes many special video and 
sound effects and many on-disk examples. $ 99 , 95 , 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St.. Lowell MA 01854, CP 


COMMUNICATIONS 

InTouch comes with its own communications command language 
***** able to do unattended sessions. Supports Xmodem, MacBin- 
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up documents and command language files provided. $145. 
Palantir, 12777 Jones Rd.. Houston* IX 77070. CP 
Madeira) nal provides basic telecommunications and terminal 
•* emulation for the Mac user. Doesn't have macros nor any 
sort of auto rediaE/auto logon capability. Best for those 
needing faithful VT100 or IBM 3278 emulation—it is superb 
at those. $99. Apple Computer. 20525 Mariani Ave.. Cuper¬ 
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Rod Ryder Is a full-featured telecommunications program that 
***** supports MacBinary. Xmodem and Kermit* Remote service 
procedures* auto procedure writer and keyboard macros 
allow automation of many operations. It is shareware and a 
real bargain, $40. The FreeSoft Corp,, 10828 Lack! ink, St. 
Louis, MO 63114. NCP 

Smartcom M balances power and ease of use. Capable of 
***** unattended operation and has a very powerful command 
language. Supports MacBinary. Xmodem, and Hayes Verifi¬ 
cation protocols. The large screen buffer can easily be 
archived both to the printer and to disk. Lacks keyboard 
macros. $149. Hayes* 5923 Peachtree Industrial Blvd,* 
Norcross, GA 30092, NCP 

Tele&capa is the power telecommunicator's terminal program. Can 
*** be configured to emulate any terminal and has all the 
advanced features (except unattended operation). The docu¬ 
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(who can figure it out on their own). $125. Mainstay, 
2S611B Canwood St. P Agoura Hills* CA 91301. NCR 
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Supports Xmodem and MacTerminal Xmodem protocols and 
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EgWord is a Mac Write lookalike that allows full Japanese kanjt 
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difficulties of the language. Great for students of Japanese, 
may find a place in international business as well. $300, 
Counterpoint. PO Box 1685, Cambridge. MA 02138. CP? 
IstMerge is a mail-merge program that integrates data files with 
documents after a blueprint for documents has been de¬ 
signed, Features on-screen help, and the abilfty to add and 
search records. Requires MacWr/te. $95, DeskTop Software* 
244 Wall St.. Princeton, NJ 08540. CP 
Hayden: Speller checks spelling errors in MacWrite t and Word 
**** documents against a dictionary of 20.000 common words 
and user-created dictionary. Reasonably fast and quite 
simple to use. $79.95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 
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Just Text is a professional level word processor and page makeup 
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of LaserWriter utilities that allow total manipulation of art 
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Laser Fonts are new fonts designed for the LaserWriter, Users 
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$29,95 each. Century Software, 2306 Coiner Ave., Los 
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*#* Forms design is easy. Can use data from MegaFiler. The 
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powerful and efficient, $49.95. EnterSet, # 408* 410 
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SemII»w*H is an effective and powerful standalone spelling 
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weakness. Speed is much improved when a hard disk is 
used. $395, Micro Ptanning Software USA, 235 Montgomery 
St., San Francisco, CA 94104. CP 
odft/Cenaultaift is a program that lets users organize Ideas and 
**• helps in thinking through and solving problems. Easy to use 
thanks to extensive use of icons and on-screen help. This 
program introduces some low-level A! (artificial intelligence) 
concepts, $200. Organization Development Software, # 
535, 1011 E, Touhy Ave,, Des Plaines, IL 60018. CP 
ThlnkTank 120 is a basic outline processor. The interface Is not 
*•* the standard Mac interface, but is simple to use and 
efficient. The program is speedy. Printer support is limited, 
but files can be printed in a draft-style mode. Only for 128K 
owners; 512K owners should get ThlnkTank 512, $145, 
Living VideoText, 2432 Charleston Rd.. Mountain View, CA 
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**** can handle word processing chores in the midst of structur¬ 
ing a pfan or outline, full keyboard control (without mouse) 
is possible, Can store and paste graphics into outlines. Slide 
show features allows high quality presentations to be 
created. Good report formatting and printing 
$245. Living VideoText, 2432 Charleston Rd.. 

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capabilities. Comes with an installer and the best manual 
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Mural St,, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4E 1B5, Canada, NCP 
The Beak Organizer Is a free*form desk management system 
**** based on card index style files. Has many features including 
alarms, report generation and calculation. The Meta feature 
lets the program run along with another application. $99. 
Conceptual Instruments, 269 W. Walnut St,, Philadelphia, 
PA 19144. CP? 

Front Peek lets smatl businesses and offices easily keep track of 
*** personnel schedules, activities and payments. The program 
can keep track of up to 15 employees, functioning as a day-, 
week- and month-at-a-glance calendar. Highly recommend¬ 
ed for doctors and dentists' offices. Less useful for offices 
less dependent on the human factor, $149,95, Layered, 85 
Merrimac St., Boston, MA 02114. CP 
MacOffix combines many of the simple and necessary office 
**** functions in one easy-to-use package. Features include 
simpte word processing, forms design, form letter produc¬ 
tion, report generation and filing. Good design nearly makes 
the manual unnecessary, $79, Emerging Technology Inc., 
4760 Walnut St,. Boulder, CO 80301. CP 
My Office lets you handle your files and papers in much the same 
*•** way you did before you got a computer. Excellent use of 
graphic symbols makes this program the easiest to use of its 
type, $129,95, DataPak, # 401, 14011 Ventura Blvd., 
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, CP 

Qulck&et is a set of five desk management and organizational 
w tools that can be used as desk accessories or applications. 
Modular design allows users to add only selected items to 
System disks. Functions include note filer, card filer, calen¬ 
dar. financial and statistical calculators and a file encryptor. 
$49.95. EnterSet. 410 Townsend St.. San Francisco, CA 
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Sidekick is a set of desk organization applications and accesso- 
**** ries. Functions include phone dialer and logger, desk 
accessory terminal, calculator, clock, editor and more. 
When required resource fifes are included modules take up a 
lot of disk space, and are best used with a hard disk. 
$84.95, Borland International, 4585 Scotts Valley Dr., 
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***** Cutter alone Is worth the price. That program allows users to 
browse and manipulate full page MacPaint documents, 
$39.95. Silicon Beach, # 201,11212 Dalby PL. San Diego. 
CA 92126. NCP 

Copy Jl Mac was one of the first back-up programs available for the 
***** Mac. Does efficient sector and bit copies and in its latest 
version can back-up virtually all Mac software. Features 
graphic displays of copy progress. Comes with MacToo/s, a 
multiuse utility that can recover many damaged files. 
$39.95. Central Point Software. # 100, 9700 S.W, Capitol 
Highway. Portland, OR 97219. NCP 
Dlftk Ranger is a speedy cataloguing program that doubles as an 
**** efficient labelmaker, Comes with pinfeed labels. Works with 
regular and hard disks. $49.95. Mainstay, 286118 Can- 
wood St.. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 
Dubl-CIIck Calculator Construction Set lets users design per* 
***** sonalized calculators with a variety of standard and special 
functions. Multiple functions can be attached to a single 
key. Finished calculators can be saved as installable desk 
accessories or as clickable applications, $99. Dubl-Ciick 
Software, 18201. Gresham St.. Northridge, CA 91321. CP? 
Fedlt Is the best disk editor available for the Mac. The program 
***** also includes extremely powerful disk and file repair and 
recovery facilities. All Mac owners should have this tool on 
hand for emergencies, It is easy enough to use that 
everyone can use it. And best of ail. it's shareware, $30, 
John Mitchell, 939 E. El Camino Real, #122. Sunnyvale, CA 
94087. NCP 

Mac Boaster is a disk-cache program that adds a great deal of 
*** operating speed to a 512K Mac, It installs easily from its 
master disk. This program can increase the speed of your 
512K Mac by 2 to 3 times. $50. Mainstay, 28611B Canwood 
St., Agoura Hills. CA 91301, NCP 
Msg Disk Catalog is a utility that wilt quickly organize a moderate 
**■* size disk library. It's easy to use and has powerful reporting 
and label-making features. $39.95. New Canaan Micro- 
Code. 136 Beech Rd,. New Canaan, CT 06840. CP 
MacLabeter lets users instantly index and print labels for all the 
*♦** disks in a burgeoning collection. Choose border type and 
orientation of your label; index by folder or document. 
Starter set of labels is Included. $49.95. Ideaform, P.0, Box 
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MacUnk lets users transfer data between Macs and PCs, Simple 
*** to install and run. high-performance software. Can do 
special format transfers such as 1-2-3 to Muitipian and 
WordStar or MuJt/Mate to MacWrite, Contains both Mac and 
PC disks, interface cable is optional. Has Mac and MS*D0S 
disks. $125, $155 with S-ft interface cable. DataViz, 16 
Winfield St„ Norwalk, CT 06855. CP? 

MacMate! combines RAMdlsk and print spooling functions in a 
**** compact package. Both parts are efficient, work well and 
have omscreen help. This is the best product in its category. 
$49,95, SMB Development Associates, PO Box 3082, 
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Mac Memory Disk creates a RAMdisk on 512K Macs, The 
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MacNoay is a global disassembler A very advanced user can use 
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NW, Washington, DC 20005. NCP 
MacZap is a three-part disk and memory utility. It can be used to 
recover some damaged files and disks, compare disks, 
analyze disk structure and make back-up copies of most 
disks. Fairly intimidating due to its enormous power. Has a 
good manual. $60. Micro Analyst. 5802B Gloucester. Aus¬ 
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'Ncryptor is a simple, safe program that lets users password their 
•••• files. The same program is used for encoding and decoding. 
This is the best product in its category. $39.95. Mainstay, 
28611B Canwood St.. Agoura Hills. CA 91301. NCP 
Packer is a simple utility that compresses files. It can be used to 
•••♦ save disk space and also protect files. Packed files can also 
be password protected. Typical space savings range from 20 
to 50% depending on the original file type and size. This is 
the best program of its type so far. $29. Bobbing Software, 
67 Country Oaks Dr.. Buda. TX 78610. NCP 
PC to MAC and BACK has both Mac and MS-DOS disks. This 
•••• program easily and efficiently transfers text and other data 
between PCs and Macs. Easy to use, although not too 
intuitive. Fortunately, the documentation is excellent. Does 
special format transfers such as WordStar to MacWrite. 
Includes a cable for direct Mac to PC connections. $149.95. 
dilithium Press. # 151. 8285 SW Nimbus. Beaverton. OR 
97005. CP? 

Quick & Dirty Utilities, Volume One is a disk chock full of the 
••••• handiest programs you have ever bought. Included are a 
super disk cataloguer, a desk accessory mover and more. 
Several desk accessories including a menu bar clock and a 
terminal are on the disk. "Fileinfo" and "Q&D Filer” are two 
file management desk accessories that you'll wonder how 
you got along without. $39.95. Dreams of the Phoenix. PO 
Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247. NCP 
Quick Disk is a RAMdisk utility. Users can create RAMdisks up to 
350K on 512K Macs. Works well and has good documenta¬ 
tion. $34. Symmetry Corporation, # 103S, 3900 East 
Camelback Rd., Phoenix. AZ 85018. NCP 
Switcher is Andy Hertzfeld’s contribution to Mac productivity. This 
—— program lets users run several programs at once (up to 8 on 
a 1-megabyte or larger machine). Switching between the 
programs is near instantaneous. Slick and easy to use; every 
512K Mac user should get it. Runs on 512K Macs and 
larger. $19.95 from Apple, free from MAUG on CompuServe, 
from Delphi and included with some third-party applications 
(e.g.. Excel). Apple Computer. 20525 Mariani Ave., Cuperti¬ 
no. CA 95014. NCP 

Turbocharger is a disk-cache program. It works by storing 
frequently used portions of a disk in a memory buffer and it 
can dramatically speed up operation (250 to 500% improve¬ 
ments are common). Features include auto-startup and write 
buffering. Only works on a 512K Mac but is a must for one. 
$95. Nevins Microsystems, 210 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 
10010. NCP 

TurboDownload is a desk accessory designed specifically to 
••••• increase the speed of Xmodem data transfers from national 
databases to your Mac. Speed increases range upward from 
50% to over 300% at 2400 baud. $39.95. Mainstay. 
28611B Canwood St.. Agoura Hills. CA 91301. NCP 
Twelve-C Financial Desk Accessory brings all the power and 
—— functionality of a Hewlett-Packard 12C programmable calcu¬ 
lator to your desktop. Can be programmed and all registers 
can be viewed while calculator is running. $39.95. Dreams 
of the Phoenix. PO Box 10273. Jacksonville. FL 32247. NCP 
TypeNow is a desk accessory that allows the Mac and ImageWriter 
to function as an electronic typewriter. Type can be placed 
into blanks in complex forms easily. Typing can be recorded 
and played back or "boilerplate” stored and used as needed. 
$39.95. Mainstay. 28611B Canwood St.. Agoura Hills. CA 
91301. NCP 

XUServe converts a Mac XL into a disk and print server. Uses the 
•••• AppleTalk network and is easily hooked up. Users can 



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only for common access and read-write for private access). 
Runs in the background on the Mac XL, so users can work on 
all machines in the network. Comes with a backup and 
restore utility. $195. Infosphere. 4730 SW Macadam. Port¬ 
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Aztec C is a C language program system that will appeal to users 
—• with a UNIX background. It uses many UNIX conventions and 
in the more expensive versions comes with standard UNIX 
utilities, including the VI editor. Good, solid system. $199 
basic system, can’t produce standalone applications; $299 
development system, can produce standalone applications; 
$499 commercial system, development system plus utilities 
and strong technical support by publisher. Manx Software 
Systems, PO Box 55. Shrewsbury, NJ 07701. NCP? 
ExperLISP is a very buggy, but still incredibly useful, programming 
••• language for high-level programmers. The more you use it, 
the more you’ll figure out about it. System crashes are too 
common for a language this useful and expensive. $495. 
Requires 512K and either an external or a hard drive. 
ExperTelligence, 559 San Ysidro Rd.. Santa Barbara. CA 
93108. CP 

ExperLogo is a version of the popular teaching language. Logo. 
••• Features three-dimensional graphics using "bunnies” rather 
than the usual "turtles.” Very speedy, smooth program. 
Comes with an excellent manual. $149.95. ExperTelligence, 
559 San Ysidro Rd., Santa Barbara. CA 93108. CP 
Hlppo-C Level 1 offers a good basic learning environment for 
••• newcomers to the C programming language.The program s 
limits and restrictions are severe and standalone applica¬ 
tions cannot be created. A good place to begin the study of 
C. Has a useful print spooler desk accessory. $149.95. 
Hippopotamus, # 12, 985 University Ave., Los Gatos, CA 
95030. CP 

MacAsm is a software development system that allows programs 
••• to be written in assembly language. Programmers can 
assemble, edit and test software, and an integrated re¬ 
source compiler lets independent applications run from their 
own icons. $125. Mainstay, 2861 IB Canwood St., Agoura 
Hills. CA 91301. CP? 

Mac C is a good, highly Mac-oriented implementation of this 
popular development language. Latest version has assem¬ 
bler and linker built-in. $375. $475 with Toolkit and floating 
point package. Consulair, 140 Campo Dr.. Portola Valley, CA 
94025. NCP 

MacExpress is a development environment or shell. Programmers 
••• use it to save time and effort when developing standalone 
applications for the Mac. Easy to use for those with a strong 
technical background. S50 test drive package, $495. AL- 
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MacForth is an implementation of the popular Forth programming 
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sionals can produce standalone applications. All levels are 
supported by the publisher via telephone and electronic 
BBSs (the publisher even has a private SIG on CompuServe). 
$149 (Level 1). $249 (Level 2). $499 (Level 3). Creative 
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Machl is a multitasking implementation of Forth that allows local 
•••• variables anfl text files. Several windows can be up with 
different operations in each, operating concurrently. Execu¬ 
tion »s fast. $99. Requires 512K. Palo Alto Shipping, PO Box 
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executive, a resource compiler called RMaker. The files 
included in this two-disk set have all the basic equates, 
process definitions, and trap calls. Good documentation 
includes a copy of the Motorola 68000 handbook. Also 
included is a copy of the "phonebook" edition of inside 
Macintosh , $195, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave.. 
Cupertino, CA 95014. NCR 

Macintosh Pascal is Apple Computer's version of this very popular 
*##* programming language. Loaded as it is with innovative 
teaching features, this interpreter is an excellent introduc¬ 
tion to Pascal. Superb usage of the whole Mac interface 
makes this the best way to learn Pascal The documents are 
mostly references, so get one of the tutorial textbooks in your 
bookstore. $125. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., 
Cupertino, CA 95014. CP 

Mega max G is an easy to use, full version of C* Has a compiler, 
**** linker, disassembler, editor and much more. Good for 
beginners. Excellent documentation, $299.95. Megamax, 
PO Box 851521, Richardson, TX 75085, CP 
Mlcreftoft BASIC was the Mac's first programming language. This 
•** interpreter (it's not a compiler) now supports the Too I Box 
and the whole Mac interface can be implemented in your 
programs. For non programmers there are lots of programs 
available {in user group libraries and magazines) to run. 
There have been several versions: be sure to get the latest, 
$150. Microsoft, 10700 Northup Way, Bellevue, WA 98009. 
CP 

Microsoft Logo, from Microsoft's MacLibrary, written by LCSI. An 
•«* excellent implementation of Logo, taking full advantage of 
the Mac's user interface. Uses three windows. Turtle looks 
like a turtle, and its screen actions are very precise, 
Windows can be resized and moved about, $124,95, Micro¬ 
soft, 10700 Northup Way, Bellevue, WA 98004, NCR 
QUED (Quality Editor for Oevalopors) is the ultimate source 
***# code editor. Loaded with useful and well thought-out 
features, it will make any programmer's life much easier. It 
is not a word processor, however. $65. Paragon Courseware* 
4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014. NCR 



EDUCATION 

A Bill Becomes A Law is a multiple-choice* roie-playing adventure 
**• in which students try to pass a bill requiring apples in every 
federally sponsored school lunch. A good insight Into 
political maneuverings on Capitol Hilf for junior high and 
high school students. $59.95. Queue Intellectual Software, 
5 Chapel Hiil Dr.* Fairfield, CT 06432. CP 
Astronomy is a low level package with basic features. Slow speed 
** and sparseness of information makes this program of 
limited use to novices, but still useless to experienced 
astronomers. $35. E & M Software Co., 95 Richardson Rd,, 
N. Chelsmaford, MA 01863, CP? 

ChtpWIts is a combination game and teaching tool. Players create 
***** programs to maneuver robots through a set of 8 mazes. The 
programs are written in Chip Wit's built-in icon-based pro¬ 
gramming language (IBOL). IBOl is a nearly perfect Introduc¬ 
tion to programming for nonprogrammers, $49,95. Brain- 
Power, 24009 Ventura Blvd,, Calabasas, CA 91302, CP 
Comet Halley is a single-purpose, single-minded program. Jt will 
**• indicate where in the sky users should look to see this pass 
of Halley's comet That's it. When the comet is gone you can 
erase the disk. $29.95. Great Wave, PO Box 5847, Stanford. 
CA 94305. NCP 

MacChemlstry is a two-disk set consisting of a titration program 
*** (predetermined compounds, not user modifiable), a periodic 
table program, MacNest (a scrapbook with indexing!), and a 
disk of MacPaint files depicting everything from lab equip¬ 
ment to molecular structures of many solutions and com¬ 
pounds, Advanced chemistry students will find programs 
shallow. MacNest is of general appeal. $145. Fortnum, 31 
W. Sierra Mad re Blvd,, Sierra Madre, CA 91024. NCP 
MacEdge and MacEctge If each contain 8 reading or math drill 


m programs for basic skills. Programs follow one of three 
formats, a bit contrived. Contrivances are design flaws— 
they require learning format as well as skill. Exception is 
Alphabet Train, a clever game with great graphics and 
sound, poor font definition, $49.95 each. Think Educational 
Software* 16 Market St., Potsdam, NY 13676. CP? 
MacStronomy is a good package for novice sky watchers. Has 
m expandable database of sky objects that can be customized 
by the user. Professionals may find some features lacking. 
$75. Etlon Software, PO Box 649, Lafayette, Co 80026. CP? 
MacType offers structured typing instruction. Can teach both 
standard and Dvorak keyboards. Features include certifi¬ 
cates for reaching certain levels. Can be used In a muitistu- 
dent environment. $49,95, Pa I a ntlr Software, # 100* 12777 
Jones Rd.* Houston, TX 77070. CP 
MasterType is proof that learning to type can be fun. In this 
•« arcade-style action game words descend from four comers 
towards the center ship; the user must type them correctly. 
Features 18 skill levels, tracks errors, recommends lessons 
and provides comparison scores. $49.95. Scarborough 
Systems, 55 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591. CP 
Mind Prober Is a demonstration of a very simple expert-style 
m system. How well do you know your friends? Answer certain 
statements as either true or false, and the computer prints a 
3- to 5-page psychological profile of subject in business* 
stress, sex and other situations, $50, Human Edge Soft* 
ware, 2445 Faber PL. Palo Alto, CA 94303* CP? 
Nutrl-Calc uses a large database of nutritional information. Users 
**• can plan good, healthy diets and print out shopping and 
menu lists* $79.95. CAMDE* 46 Prince St., Rochester* NY 
14607, CP? 

FowarMath is an equation solver. Handles problems ranging from 
••m the simplest to the extremely complicated. Step-by-step 
solutions make this a powerful teaching tool* Results can be 
displayed numerically or graphically. Slow, but potent pro¬ 
gram. $99.95. Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd,, Calaba¬ 
sas, CA 91302, CP 

Score Improvement System for the SAT is a no-nonsense drill 
and practice session covering practice tests, vocabulary, 
reading comprehension, algebra, geometry and quantitative 
comparisons. Excellent on-line tutoring for wrong answers. 
Result can be printed out with the ImageWrlter. $99,95. 
Hayden, 650 Suffolk SL, Lowell, MA 01854. CP? 
Smooth Talker trains your Mac to say anything you want. Users can 
*m program the pitch and tone of each syllable to simulate true 
speech patterns. Not too useful—but a lot of fun to play 
with! Latest version includes a female voice. Male and 
female can be mixed in same document to provide entertain¬ 
ment. $149,95* First Byte Software, 2845 Temple Ave., 
Long Beach, CA 90806, CP 

Spanish Grammar III is a teachers' tool consisting of ten modules 
999 for students who need tutoring in the Spanish language. 
Previous knowledge of the language is necessary. Uses 
multiple choice and fill-in formats. Keeps a Teachers Man¬ 
agement Report for up to 40 names. $34,95. Queue, 5 
Chapel Hill Drive, Fairfield, CT 06432, CP? 

Speed Reader II builds skills sequentially to develop faster, more 
m* efficient reading and improve retention. Scores kept, and 
can be graphed. High school level selections included, other 
levels available on data disks. $69.95. Davidson & Asso¬ 
ciates, 3135 Kashiwa St., Torrance* CA 90505, CP? 
Tallatar I & II are classics on other machines, best of the Mac lot. 
99 m Has extensive database, quick sky plotting and can locate 
specific celestial objects. Level II has southern hemisphere 
star table* Messier objects. Good for both novices and 
advanced skywatchers. $49.95 (level I)* $79.95 (level It). 
Spectrum HoioByte, 1050 Walnut, #325, Boulder, CO 
80302. NCP 

Think Fast allows users to improve their recall and recognition 
••• abilities. Tests include compare, copy and recall exercises. 
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**** "Concentration," Great graphics and sound, one- or two- 
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Doja Vu A: Nightmare Comes True is a graphic adventure that 
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recipes accordingly. $59,95. Rubicon, 6300 La Calma Dr,, 
Austin, TX 78752, CP 

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Fokker Trl plane is about as near to flying as you can get seated in 
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Forbidden Quest is a text adventure with pictures. Begins in a 
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solutions. The disk Is accompanied by five graphic prints, 
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Gateway, another Artext game, comes with 3 full-color prints. You 
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Gala puts players in command of an American submarine in World 
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Gypsy is a computerized, customizable Ouija board. More than just 
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and a Mouse Mover with 99 ball bearings, $39.95, Magnum, 
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Harrier Strike Mission pits you against a well defended island. 
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Hippo Computer Almanac is a collection of interesting facts that 
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Infidel is a text adventure In which the player, left alone In the 
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Mac Backgammon with Crlbbage provides graphic versions of 
** these classic games. Variable skill levels allow the user to 
set game difficulty. At the expert level both games will 
challenge experts. The graphics are attractive but slow the 
games down quite a bit. $49. Videx, 1105 Northeast Circle 
Blvd.. Corvallis. OR 97330. CP 

MacChallenger lets players land a space shuttle. The graphics of 
•*** this flight simulator are crude and it's a hard machine to fly, 
but it's also a lot of fun. Version 2.0 lets you record your 
landing attempt (that’s what most of them are!) and then 
review it from any of ten camera angles, a truly unique 
touch! $49.95. Aegis Development, # 277, 2210 Wilshire 
Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403. CP 
Macinooga ChooiChoo is a set of electronic toy trains. Run on 
**** the layouts provided, or create your own, as complex as you 
wish. Create scenery using built-in tools or import fancier 
MacPaint scenery. $39. Fortnum, 31 W, Sierra Madre Blvd., 
Sierra Madre, CA 91024. NCP 

MacJack II is a blackjack game pitting users against the house. 
**** Includes good graphics, insurance against dealer blackjack, 
splitting and doubling, and table limit that rises with your 
stake. The game plays very well, and can be quite addictive. 
$39,95, DataPak, # 401, 14011 Ventura Blvd., Sherman 
Oaks, CA 91423. CP 

Mac Vega 6 contains seven complete casino-style games: bacca- 
*** rat, blackjack, craps, keno, poker, roulette and slots. All are 
fairly standard but generally well designed. House rules can 
be altered by selecting establishment from a menu. The 
games are all fun to play, but not particularly absorbing. 
$59. Videx, 1105 Northeast Circle Blvd,, Corvallis, OR 
97330. CP 

Make Millions is a fascinating business simulation in which the 
***** p I aye r com pete s a ga i n st th e com p u te r to ta ke contro I o f f i ve 
companies, then run them profitably. Different strategic 
options and human-seeming associates make simulation 
more complete. Appeals to the closet capitalist in all of us, 
$49,95, Scarborough Systems. 55 South Broadway, Tarrv- 
town, NY 10591, CP 

Millionaire is a financial simulation based on the stock market, 
***• "News' 1 affects stock prices, so read it religiously. Turn a 
pittance into a fortune to win the game, $49.95. Blue Chip, 
6740 Eton Ave.,Canoga Park, CA 91303. CP 
Mind Over Mac features five games. Entertainment for the whole 
**** family. Good graphics paired with synthesized sound and on¬ 
screen help (each has a Rule menu). $49,95, Think Educa¬ 
tional Software, 16 Market St., Potsdam, NY 13676. CP? 
NewGammon is animated backgammon that will challenge even 
mm good players. Features Include variable skill levels and 
strategies and options to play the Mac or watch the Mac play 
itself. Many positions are included so that you can learn how 
to play them without having to set up a whole game. An 
arcade-like high speed play mode is also included. This is 
the best backgammon player currently available. $39,95. 
Newsoft. PO Box 4035, Newport Beach, CA 92661. CP 
Porplexx is a board word game based on Scrabble , Players can 
vary the rules and board to suit their tastes and skills. Up to 
four can play and the game can either be an active player or 
a scorer and arbiter. Has a 90.000+ word dictionary and 
good graphics. $39.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St,, Lowell, MA 
01854, CP 

Pinball Construction Set lets users create their own pinball 
**•* games, as elaborate or as easy as desired. Uses MacPaint 
for backgrounds and has lifelike sounds (on 512K Macs). No 
documentation to speak of. $40. Electronic Arts, 2755 
Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. CP 
Planetfall leaves users shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted 
m planet, with only Floyd the Droid to help figure out how to get 
home. Two possible endings. This full-text game is written in 
a tongue-in-cheek style. $39.95. Infocom, 125 Cambridge¬ 
Park Dr,, Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Psion Chess is as good a micro chess player as you'll find. This 
•*•*» 1984 World Micro Champion makes superb use of graphics 



and the Mac interface. Switch between 6 languages for a 
touch of spice, $59.95, Psion, 40 Undeman Dr,, Trumbull, 
CT 06611. CP 

Real Poker is five-card draw against five other players with Old 
***** West names, distinct personalities and playing styles, in a 
saloon setting. Dealing and play are very fast. Game 
evaluates your hand, suggests cards to keep/discard. Dy¬ 
namic, exciting, addictive game. $39.95, Henderson Asso¬ 
ciates, 980 Henderson Ave,, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, CP 
Rogue is a strategy dungeon adventure in which each quest is 
■■*• completely different. Randomly generated rooms, monsters 
and treasures keep even veterans on their toes. $39. Epyx. 
1043 Kiel Ct.. Sunnyvale, CA 94039, CP 
Sargon III is a capable chess program with 9 levels of play* 
**»* problem-solving modes, take back, change color, hint* 
manual play, etc. Easy Play option blocks Sargon from 
stealing search time during player's move, effectively dou¬ 
bling number of levels. Pieces are moved graphically. Disk 
stores 107 classic games for review and replay. $49.95. 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St,, Lowell, MA 01854. CP 
Strategic Conquest is a large scale, strategic conflict on the 
***• Mac. This very involved war game will be enjoyed by those 
who like this genre, $49.95. PBI Software, 1155B-H Chess 
iDr.i iFoster City* CA 94404, CP 

Suspended is Info corn's most unique text game. Using a small 
mm plastic board and six markers, the pfayer keeps track of six 
uniquely designed robots which check on damage to a 
complex's machinery and report back what they perceive as 
the problem. $49.95, Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr., 
Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 

Tycoon is a financial simulation based on the ups and downs of 
hm commodities market. Build a fortune in pork bellies and 
Swiss francs, checking the "Financial Journal” for news 
affecting the market. $59.95, Blue Chip, 6740 Eton Ave * 
Canoga Park, CA 91303. CP 

Ultima II players take the part of a character who travels through 
**•* land, sea* atr, space and even time itself In a quest to find 
and defeat the evil sorceress Minax, Good Mac interface; 
excellent game; confusing graphics. $59,95. Sierra, PO Box 
485, Coarsegold* CA 93614, CP 
Ultima III allows up to four characters to cooperate to explore the 
***** vast wilderness of Sosaria; dungeons, oceans* and the 
Moon Gates to heip solve the adventure. $59.95. Origin 
Systems. 340 Harvey Rd,. Manchester, NH 03103. CP 
Universe 2 is the most complete space adventure yet created. It 
**• has so much data that it requires 3 disks! Good, playable 
game, marred by poor parser in the text adventure sections. 
Requires 512K. $69,95. Omnitrend, PO Box 3, W. Simsbury, 
CT 06092, CP 

Webstev^s Revenge is a Boggle-Uke word search game. Super 
***• graphics make it a pleasure to play. The dictionary is 
adequate and the user can always overrule it if necessary. 
Multiple skill levels make this a game for all* $34.95. 
Shapeehanger Software. 113 E. Tyler, Athens, IX 75751. 
CP? 

Winter Games lets Up to eight players compete against each other 
m»« jn Olympic events including figure skating, bobsledding* 
biathlon and ski-jumping. Mouse and keyboard controls this 
action game. Excellent animation, good graphics, good 
theme music, $39, Epyx, 1034 Kiel Ct.* Sunnyvale. CA 
94089, CP 

The Witness is a full-text adventure that casts the player as a 
mm detective assigned to get to the bottom of a death threat. 
When the victim is killed, you have only one night to find the 
real guilty party. $39.95. Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr., 
Cambridge, MA 02142. CP 

Wizardry is an outstanding dungeon exploration adventure pitting 
***** a party of up to six characters against the guardian monsters 
of the evil wizard Werdna. Capture his amulet to earn your 
reward. Even after solving the game, youil want to go back 
into the dungeon. $59.95. Sir-Tech* 6 Main St,. Ogdens- 
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Word Challenge is a Boggle lookalike. Features multiple (26) skill 
•* levels and an extensive dictionary. Even "pro 41 Boggle 
players should find a level that will challenge them. New 
version has improved graphics. $39.95. Hayden, 600 Suf¬ 
folk St,. Lowell, MA 01854. CP 

WordPlay is a word game with over 50 crossword puzzles for 
mm different levels of expertise. User friendly, it offers on¬ 
screen Help menus. A Work mode allows development of 
new puzzles for the creative, $49.95, Pafantir, 12777 Jones 
Rd.. Houston, TX 77070. NCP 

Xyphus is a role-playing game pitting four characters (fighters or 
***• wizards} against multiple scenarios that grow increasingly 
harder. Excellent Mac interface and icon control. $39.95, 
Penguin, 830 Fourth Ave*, Geneva, IL 60134. CP 
Zork I is a full-text adventure game that lets players explore a 
mm strange underground empire. Parser understands full sen¬ 
tences: players can take many different routes to final 
success. Beware of the thief, who steals random objects. 
The ultimate text game. $39,95, Infocom, 125 Cambridge¬ 
Park 0r, T Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Zork li is where the adventure continues in the underground 
•••* empire. A wandering wizard keeps things interesting, though 
there’s a way to beat him if you persevere. $44,95, infocom, 
125 CambridgePark Dr,, Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Zork III is the final chapter in the trilogy. Players come up against 
m** the ultimate enemy—the Dungeonmaster himself. More 
ctosed-ended than previous larks. $44.95. Infocom, 125 
CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 


MUSIC 

ConcertWara+ Is an enhanced version of ConcertWare. Has 
m« different instruments and the ability to use any four of a set 
of eight at any point in a musical piece. Can read and use 
ConcertWare and MusicWorks files. The best program for 
those who want to listen to music on the Mac. $69.95. Great 
Wave Software. PO Box 5847, Stanford, CA 94305. NCP 
Deluxe Musk Construction Set: an active piano keyboard and 
«M instant audio feedback make this program perfect for 
educational applications, and the advanced notational capa¬ 
bilities will satisfy most advanced musicians, $50, Electron¬ 
ic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. CP 
MusIcWorks allows the user to create and play simple musical 
m* compositions. Music entry is by either a grid or a staff and is 
very easy. Users can select various Instruments and modify 
each to produce new effects. Compositions are limited to 64 
measures and overall limitations make this a beginner's 
program. There are many public domain music files avail¬ 
able to play. The manual is clear and thorough. $79.95, 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. CP 
Professional Composer is aimed at music professionals. Pro- 
duces performance-quality sheet music; has only limited 
playback facilities, $495. Mark of the Unicorn, 222 Third 
St. Cambridge. MA 02142. CP 


HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES 

A+ Mouse is a replacement mouse. It works by optical tracking on 
mm a special mousepad. Good choice if the original mouse fails. 
$99. Mouse Systems, 2336H Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 
95051, 

The Easel is a compact and portable carrier for up to 20 disks. Can 
«« be converted into a standup rack for desktop use. Solidly 
made, attractive and useful. $19.95. Innovative Technol¬ 
ogies, 5731 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla, CA 92037. 

Ergotron is a Mac (and external drive) holder that allows a full 
mm range of swiveling and tilting. Very strong, this well made 
unit is also very easy to use. $99.95. Ergotron, PO Box 
17013, Minneapolis. MN 55417, 

Hard Disk 20 is Apple's entry in the exploding hard disk sweep- 
*»• stakes. This quiet, small unit uses Apple’s new Hierarchical 
File System (NFS), It is a pleasure to use and will perform 


even better when the new ROMs are available. The lack of 
utility software (spooler, backup, security) is its only draw¬ 
back. $1499, Apple Computer, 20525 Marian! Ave., Cuperti¬ 
no, CA 95014. 

Hyper Drive HD20 is an internal 20-megabyte hard disk. It only 
mm adds about 5 pounds to the Mac’s weight. Good, full featured 
unit with all common utmties;spooler, security program and 
backup utility. It could use memory a bit more efficiently, 
and it remains to see how well it will work with Apple s new 
HFS, $2195 installed in a 512K Mac. General Computer 
Company. 215 First St.. Cambridge. MA 02142. 
MacCharlle Is one of the most unusual Mac products imaginable, 
«m its components slip around the Mac and the keyboard and 
convert the Mac into an IBM PC done. Amazingly it works 
well. The enlarged keyboard has a few bugs but is a joy to 
use. $1,195 with 256K RAM and one floppy drive. $1,895 
with 64QK RAM and two floppy drives. Dayna Communica¬ 
tions. 50 S. Main St,, Salt Lake City, UT 84144. 
Maclrrtlzer is a graphics tablet and absolute positioning device 
mm that replaces the mouse. Various scales are possible, $599. 

GTCO Corp.. 1055 First St. Rockville, MD 20850, 
MacNIfty Stereo Music System converts Mac sounds to simulat- 
mm* ed stereo by splitting highs and lows between two powerful 
speakers. User controls bass, treble, balance, low and high 
impedance output, and most importantly, volume. Hear your 
music compositions the way they were meant to be played, 
$79.95. Kette Group. 13895 Industrial Park Blvd., Minne¬ 
apolis, MN 55441. 

MacNIfty Switch allows any port on your Mac to connect to two 
«* peripherals. Turn the knob to switch between the two 
devices. Plugs are friction-fit, not screw-fastened like most 
Mac peripherals, so in some cases may loosen by them¬ 
selves, $34.95, Kette Group. 13895 industrial Park Blvd., 
Minneapolis, MN 55441. 

MacTabtot is a stylus-driven graphics tablet. Users can easily 
mm sketch or trace art using this absolute-positioning device. 
Has a working area the size of the Mac screen. Allows 
concurrent use of the mouse. $495, Summagraphics Corp., 
777 State St. Extension, Fairfield, CT 06430. 

Mac Turbo Touch is a mouse replacement device. Features 
mm include 2.5-inch diameter track ball with control buttons to 
either side. Users either love it (and refuse to use anything 
else) or hate it; very few so-so's on this product. Takes a few 
days to get used to. $129. Assimilation, 485 Alberto Way. 
Los Gatos, CA 95030. 

MacVIstan is a digitizer that uses an ordinary video camera for 
mm input. Capable of extremely fine results and special effects. 
Easy to use and well documented, $399.95, Koala, 3100 
Patrick Henry Dr,, Santa Clara, CA 95052, 

Magtc is both the most intimidating and easiest to use digitizer 
mm available. Use a regular video camera for input. Once the 
crowded screen is mastered, any effect is possible. $399, 
$549 with camera. New Image Technology, # 104, 10300 
Greenbelt Rd., Seabrook, MD 20706. 

Mousetrak is a fabric covered foam mousing pad. If will increase 
mm the efficiency of your mouse while helping to keep it clean. 
Pad comes in a variety of colors. Particularly useful In the 
typical office desk top environment. $10. Moustrak, # 503, 
1 Weatherly, Mill Valley, CA 94941, 

Numeric Turbo combines a track ball with an enhanced numeric 
mm keypad. The keypad includes working cursor keys and other 
direct function keys that bypass the Mac’s Command and 
Shift keys. The track ball takes some getting used to and 
some never learn to like it. Those who do rarely ever use a 
mouse again. $149. Assimilation, 485 Alberto Way, Los 
Gatos, CA 95030, 

ThunflerScan replaces the ribbon cartridge in an ImageWriter, 
mm which is required to use it. Laser scans art that can be run 
through the ImageWriter, producing high-quality digitized 
images. The Images can be manipulated as they are created 
or afterward. Output has been optimized for LaserWriter. 
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MacLightning™ is the first RAM-based interactive Spelling/Grammar 

checker for Macintosh™ 


W hether you’re using Microsoft Word,™ 
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APRIL 1986 MACUSER 143 


















THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE 



THE AMAZING 
NEW 

MACINTOSH! 

by John C. Dvorak 

T H IS column consists mainly of spec¬ 
ulation, hut sometimes 1 hear a story 
that bears repeating. In the case of" the 
secret French Macintosh, the story hears 
repeating over and over. It seems that for 
over two years Apple has been using the 
services of Jean Leon I.emh a French 
computer designer and noted physicist. 
He's the French equivalent of Alan Kay 
and Fm told he and Kay communicate 
often about the best design for the next 
generation of personal computers. 

IS it enough to say that amongst the 
cognoscenti, Jean Leon (as he is called) is 
as well-known as Seymour Cray? I Je lias 
been used by nearly every major main¬ 
frame manufacturer as a consultant. Me 
supposedly ironed out some throughput 
hugs in the new IBM 3090 machine and 
has worked with the Russians on a 
supercomputer of some sort. The con¬ 
nection with Apple is a little mysterious, 
hut Fee been able to gather enough facts 
to piece together a scenario that will give 
us some idea as to Apple's plans for the 
future. 

AN abtmse memo sent to me by an 
insider at Apple concerning Apple's 
ownership of a L 05-foot yacht named 
the Apple Eumpa turned me on to the 
whole story. The hoar is anchored near 
Sr. Trope/ in the south of France I sent 
the memo to a friend of mine who works 
for Computer land in Europe to check 
this out and he confirmed that Apple 
does indeed have a huge motor-powered 
yacht in the Mediterranean, On hoard is 
a satellite uplink and an entire develop¬ 
ment team headed by Jean Leon. It turns 
out that Jean Leon is good friends with 
lean-Louis Gassec and that connection is 
the main reason Steve Jobs (who had 
somehow' met Jean Leon in Farts while 
on a junket) hired Gassec. 

APRIL* 1986 was supposed to be the 
date that a new generation of computers 
was to be announced, according to my 
sources. The new generation was sup¬ 
posed to he designed by these French¬ 


men. The original notion was that the 
Macintosh by then would have supplant¬ 
ed the Apple II as the bread and butter 
computer and the Jean Leon machine 
(dubbed the “Sylvie*) would be intro¬ 
duced as Apple's corn' into the personal 
workstation market. It would be a direct 
competitor with Sun and Apollo Com¬ 
puters at a third of the price. Now it 
seems that this machine may never be 
released, especially since Steve Jobs is 
gone and John Sail ley has been fighting 
with Jean Leon over the specifications of 
the computer. Over the past six months 
the relationship between the French de¬ 
sign team and Apple has been strained, 
to sav the least. 



“FOOLS, idiots, jerks,” is what Jean 
Leon calls the Apple Corporate people. 
* 1 D re a i ne r, ni( i n ey- w asto r, ph on ey, 11 i s 
what Apple executives call Jean Leon, 
Currently there is a dosed door battle in 
Cupertino over the expenses that the 
1 US-four Apple Europa Is racking up 
monthly. Fm mid char on board, Dom 
Peri gn on and 1, afire-Rothschild flow like 
water. Apparently the brouhaha over 
expenses stemmed from a phoney ex¬ 
pense report sent to Cupertino one 
month, Among other things it listed a 
wine expense of over 510,000 for one 
parry! 

JOKE or no joke, the whole operation 
is under review and it's possible that the 
Sylvie may never appear or be complet¬ 
ed- 

I heard that the Sylvie is a 1024 x 
1024 full-color machine with three pro¬ 
cessors. Jean Leon is supposed to he 
some sort of genius with parallel process- 
ing. It has three 68000 chips. One lor 
I/O, one for the screen and one for data 


manipulation. The machine uses all high 
speed components and operates at one 
megaflop speed. 11 comes with 10 mega¬ 
bytes of main memory and it's supposed 
to sell for less than 53000. 

MEANWHILE, there is a big battle 
over nvo issues. It seems that Alan Kay 
and Jean Leon are convinced that new 
algorithms will make voice recognition a 
reality, so there will be no need for a 
keyboard. For CAD/CAM use, the 
mouse will do all the work. Scullcy 
thinks it’s idiotic to even consider pro¬ 
ducing a machine without a keyboard. 

CAN you imagine a machine without 
a keyboard!? Fve heard that demos done 
by Jean Leon include putting a keyboard 
on the screen and then typing on it with 
the mouse. Needless to say, Scullcy will 
fight this dumb idea. 

HOPE for a keyboard, folks! Then 
again, the keyboard issue may just be a 
smokescreen for the real problem be¬ 
tween Scullcy and Jean Leon. It seems 
that Scullcy is so hot on making this 
machine IBM compatible that he insists 
that it have a fourth processor-—an Intel 
80286 or. better still, a 80386, Jean 
I .eon is dead set against IBM compatibil¬ 
ity in this way. 

TO make the computer IBM compati¬ 
ble with another chip would screw up his 
efficient design, or so the story goes. 
This additional chip means that the ma¬ 
chine will cost more and provide only a 
marketing gimmick. 

DELUDE the user with emulation, 
perhaps?! That seems to he what Jean 
Leon wants to do, Sail lev's advisors have 
convinced Scullcy that an hud chip has 
to be on-board, Emulation never works 
right and it's a software bottleneck, For¬ 
tune Systems guys used to tell me how 
they were going to emulate all kinds of 
things with their 68000, including the 
Apple II and the IBM PC, Needless to 
say, it never happened. 

A person with experience in this in¬ 
dustry soon realizes that there is comput¬ 
er-assisted design to help build boards 
and design chips, hut we do nor have 
similar tools for software development. 
That's why software lags so far behind. 
So maybe the fourth processor is the wav 
to go, 

FEW, if any, Apple executives are 
siding with Jean Leon on this issue or on 
die keyboard issue. Apparently this has 
the Frenchman tip in arms. Meanwhile 
the April date is long forgotten. 

READERS may get lucky and gel to 
see a prototype in Las Vegas at next fall's 
COMDEX.* Have a mce day,^ 


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